Isuma Non-Fiction

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  My Father's Land (Ataatama Nunanga)

  uploaded by: Zacharias Kunuk

  channel: My Father's Land

  Mixing scenes from past and present, My Father's Land (Ataatama Nunanga) looks at the meanings between Inuit history and modern mining in North Baffin Island; how new media is used to inform and consult Inuit leading up to July 2012 Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) Final Public Hearings on Baffinland's $6 billion Mary River proposal to build the world's largest iron mine on Inuit land between… Uqalimakkanirit

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  1h 25m 5s

  Angirattut (Coming Home)

  uploaded by: Zacharias Kunuk

  channel: Angirattut (Coming Home)

  Angirattut (Coming Home), Kingulliit Productions 2014, Director Zacharias Kunuk. Inuktitut no sub-titles.

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  1h 30s

  Unikkaat Sivunittinnit (Messages From the Past)

  uploaded by: Zacharias Kunuk

  channel: Kingulliit The Next Generation - TV

  In 1991, Igloolik Isuma Productions gathered 13 Igloolik elders for a week of discussion, to choose and then record 24 traditional ajaja songs considered most important to preserve for the future: where did the songs come from, how where they made and how have they been passed down generation to generation?

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  46m 34s

  Inuit Cree Reconciliation

  uploaded by: Zacharias Kunuk

  channel: Inuit Cree Reconciliation

  Zacharias Kunuk and Neil Diamond team up to research the events and historical impacts of an 18th century conflict between Inuit and Cree in Northern Québec, and to bring people together finally in 2013.

  Inuit Cree Reconciliation, Kingulliit Productions, NITV 2013, Directors Zacharias Kunuk and Neil Diamond. Inuktut, Cree, English w/English s-t.

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  54m 7s

  Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

  uploaded by: IsumaTV

  channel: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

  This feature documentary takes viewers “on the land” with elders and hunters to explore the social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic.  Directed by Zacharias Kunuk and reseacher/filmmaker Dr Ian Mauro.  

   

   

   

  LONG SYNOPSIS

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  48m 16s

  Exile Nutaunikut

  uploaded by: Zacharias Kunuk

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in northern Québec, to extend Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. Inuit endured families torn apart and many years of hardship.… Uqalimakkanirit

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  1h 31m 12s

  Alianait (w/English subtitles)

  uploaded by: Stéphane Rituit

  channel: Alianait!

  ‘Alianait!’ is a peforming arts documentary celebrating the coming of age of Artcirq - a youth-focused, circus troupe founded in Igloolik that combines traditional Inuit cultural expression with modern circus techniques.

   

   

   

   

   

   

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  49m 24s

  Inuit Piqutingit (What Belongs to Inuit)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Inuit Culture Education

  A group of Nunavut elders travel to five museums in North America to see and identify artifacts, tools and clothing collected from their Inuit ancestors.

  Inuit Piqutingit (What Belongs to Inuit), Igloolik Isuma Productions, Kivalliq Inuit Association 2009, Producers Bernadette Dean, Katarina Soukup, Zacharias Kunuk. English and Inuktut w/Eng s-t.

   

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  46m 50s

  Kiviaq versus Canada

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  Kiviaq's extraordinary life story bears testimony to the treatment Indigenous people of the Canadian Arctic have endured for generations due to the government's inhumane colonial policies.… Uqalimakkanirit

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  42m 55s

  The Making of The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: More about The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

  Funny, fascinating, behind the scenes view by Greenland filmmaker Kenneth Rasmussen.

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  47m 5s

  Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: MICH Living Archives

  Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk) follows the lives of three Inuit in Montreal over the course of one hot and humid summer.Only two generations ago Inuit lived in small, nomadic hunting camps scattered across the vast Arctic landscape.… Uqalimakkanirit

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  Kunuk Family Reunion

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  In June 2003, Cannes prize-winner Zacharias Kunuk's family gathered at their traditional home camp site of Siuraajuk, to share stories and honor the ancestors who came before them: a wedding; a burial; messages from the past.

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