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The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.

A portrayal of the lives of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak. Based on the journals of 1920s Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen.

Inspired by the John Ford film The Searchers, an Inuit woman and her daughter are kidnapped by three Inuit men, while her husband and son are away. The Inuit husband sets out on a journey to find his family and punish the perpetrators.

Inuit people have lived for thousands of years on the Arctic. On this documentary we review their history, culture and legends and how they are living these nowadays. This work talks about how Canadians Government start to control the Inuit society sixty years ago, how they negotiated his Land Claim Agreement of Nunavut Region and how the Inuit people kept their language and culture until now. Also, we can see how religion affected their traditional believes and how the Inuit adapted these on his daily own live.

Anna is nervous when she and her son, Tomas, arrive in the small, close-knit community of Igloolik, in the Canadian Arctic.

One is from a remote Inuit community in the Arctic Tundra, the other from the bustling but poverty-stricken capital of Guinea, West Africa. But Guillaume and Yamoussa share a dream: take circus to the youth in their communities.

As a child, Marie-Pascale began to make a raucous sound. As a young adult, she discovers that this voice can be the instrument of katajjaq, or Inuit throat singing. This discovery propels her on a quest and jostle her life. She learns to practice throat singing with the Inuk singer, Charlotte Qamaniq. She meets the Inuit people of today. By listening to their stories and History, she senses parts of her own, intimate, and collective story.

As a young child, Bonnie Ammaq's parents moved their family from Igloolik to the vast interior of Baffin Island. Living off the land for eleven years, the family recount their time living as their ancestors did and the incredible happiness it gave them.

Billy flies to Baffin Island for the next leg of his journey. The changes in Inuit life leave him feeling sad after a visit to a museum in Iqaluit. An appearance on a television cooking show allows him to taste caribou. An accordion player impresses him in Pangnirtung. A boat trip to Auyuittuq National Park takes him to the Arctic Circle marker. The sights and sounds of the Turner Glacier leave him almost speechless. A seamstress measures him up for a seal skin suit in Iglooik. Waiting for it be finished gives him time to experience Inuit throat singing for the first time. An elder takes him to see the grave of Alexander Elder. A group of teenagers demonstrate their high kicking and mouth pulling skills. A final stop before the Northwest Passage sees him go out seal hunting with a family from Pond Inlet.