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- In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.
- Arctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting in 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal where he meets Albertine. They meet again when Avik joins World War II in the UK.
- Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.
- Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter who has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. When her youngest son unexpectedly passes away, Aaju embarks on a personal journey to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice.
- In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii's illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages. By sharing his culture with Kaki and opening it up to others, Tivii rediscovers his pride and energy. Ultimately he also rediscovers hope through a plan to adopt Kaki, bring him home and make him part of his family.
- Travelling to the Arctic for the first time, Carmen arrives in Iqaluit to tend to her husband, Gilles, a construction worker who has been seriously injured. Trying to get to the bottom of what happened, she strikes up a friendship with Noah, Gilles' Inuk friend, and realizes they share a similar story. Together, Carmen and Noah head out on the Frobisher Bay - she, looking for answers to her questions; he, trying to stop his son from committing what can't be undone.
- Julia, a Los Angeles photographer, journeys to the Canadian arctic. Her whimsical trip becomes a life threatening disaster. Julia, abandoned ill equipped, and stranded on sea ice is rescued by Malaya, a young Inuit girl. Julia discovers the the dark truth of Malaya's world.
- The Inuk people of the north are divided between modern and traditional lifestyles and Canadian and Danish political systems. Those divides are becoming more pronounced due to the effects of a warming northern climate.
- In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Canadian government and left to their own devices in the Far North. In this icy desert realm, Martha Flaherty and her family lived through one of Canadian history's most sombre and little-known episodes.
- Not the only gay 'Eskimo'.
- 25-year-old Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a relaxed narration-free depiction of an Inuk seal hunt. Released in 1975, Natsik Hunting is believed to be Canada's first Inuk-directed film.
- On a doctor's philanthropic journey to give to the people of Tibet, he receives more than he could ever imagine.
- At the heart of every Qanurli misadventure, is the story of a group of Inuit friends whose ultimate goal is to create a tv show in their own Inuktut language.
- Canadian meteorological technicians work in the high Arctic collecting important weather and climate information. The documentary follows staff in the remote weather station of Mould Bay, well north of the Arctic Circle. Only ten people work in this remote outpost. Actor Kevin McDonald plays the "Lone Met Tech" who humorously struggles with life in one of these isolated weather stations.
- As Canada's Arctic melts, a new ocean emerges, filled with promise and peril.
- In this traditional story, a young owl catches a lemming to eat, or does he?
- These 4 short films, follow a week at the Toonik Tyme festival in Iqaluit, the Inuit capital way up in the Arctic. A magical look at a changing culture as locals compete in games and tests of skill: igloo building, ice sculpture, snowmobile racing and a round of golf on a fairway carved from the sea ice. It's all so enchanting, but behind these images are stories of homelessness, melting ice, colonialism and isolation.
- This short documentary follows Davidee Qaumariaq, a snowmobile racing enthusiast, who is taking part in the annual snowmobile races. Kimmirut Race is a spectators favorite, high endurance race from Iqaluit, Nunavut to neighbouring southern community, Kimmirut, Nunavut.
- They thought the dump fires were behind them, but something has emerged from the flames. Actions have consequences in this dark fairy tale, reminding you to take care of your trash, before it takes care of you.
- A group of high school students from southern Ontario visit the arctic and learn about Inuit culture.