Cara Di Staulo

A young Inuk, acknowledging the global warming and its impacts on his community, intends to reduce drastically the energy consumption of his village.

Filmmaker: Félix Pharand D.

Filmmaker Contact: www.artcirq.org /  www.globaia.org

Producer's Name: Guillaume Saladin / Artcirq

Rooted in tradition, adoption is a reality that all Inuit families have experienced. In Inuit culture, adopting a child from a relative, friend or acquaintance is a common practice. Marie-Hélène Cousineau, the adoptive mother of Alexandre Apak, lived in Igloolik, a small island southwest of Baffin Island in the Arctic, for many years.

This video is part of a series of other documentaries around a youth Inuit group, Artcirq, who are trying to express their reality and identity in modern days.

Filmmaker: Natar Ungalaq

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Producer's Name: Natar Ungalaq

A documentary from Arnait Video Productions (Women's Video Collective of Igloolik). Abandoned by her father, a White RCMP officer, Vivi Kunuk was adopted by the Inuk family of her mother who raised her as a boy. This is but one remarkable chapter in her life.

You ever want to hire a real-life soundtrack to follow you about? The Squeeze Box is a film-noir love poem about a hitman that hires a mute accordion player to follow him around and be his real-life soundtrack.

Filmmaker: Shane Belcourt & Duane Murray

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The thing about history is it's in the past. In the present, history can be as malleable as soft butter. Somewhere between truth and fiction are the things that could and maybe did happen. If you weren't there, how do you know for sure. This film reveals a unique piece of Métis history.… Uqalimakkanirit

Chapter two: I investigate the body as a tool, a house, flesh. I learn what the different parts of my body are called in sami launguage. I do this in my home. Me in my body among my things that I identify with. I try out my different sami attributes o

Filmmaker: Liselotte Wajstedt

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YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1996
DURATION: 6 min
GENRE: Computer animation
FORMAT: Video (colour)
LANGUAGE: Inuktitut Eng/Fr st.
CAST/PERFORMERS: Madeline Ivalu
DIRECTOR: Mary Kunuk
PRODUCER: Arnait Video Collective… Uqalimakkanirit

This rough draft is a preliminary video about the experience of Yamoussa Bangourra, African Dancer, acrobat juggler musician, coming to the high Arctic in the coldest period of the year, January, when the sun is not visible? Meeting the troup of Artcirq,

Filmmaker: Guillaume Saladin

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A short documentary by Solomon Uyarasuk about youth who are training to put on a show in Igloolik.

Produced by Guillaume Saladin.  An Artcirq Produciton. 2007. Visit our website www.artcirq.org

This film is about rebirth - a young man coming to grips with his past and trying to change the future. This film takes place mostly in his jail cell as he burns Indian medicine for strength. While the medicine burns and smoke comes up from a wooden smudge bowl he reflects on his past.… Uqalimakkanirit

Su Naa is a journey of resolve on an emotional landscape of grief. A sister tries to resolve her guilt in order to recover the happiness of the last night shared with her brother before he is killed in a tragic accident. The audience is taken through this journey of resolve on an emotional landscape of grief.

Filmmaker: Helen Haig-Brown