ᓱᒃᑲᔪᒥᒃ ᖃᕋᓴᐅᔭᒃᑯᕈᓐᓇᐅᑎᖃᕐᐲᑦ? ᓱᒃᑲᔪᒧᐊᕐᓗᑎᑦ
ᑕᕆᔭᕋᓱᒃᑕᐃᑦ ᓱᒃᑲᐃᓗᐊᕐᐸ? ᐊᓯᓪᓕᕐᓗᒍ ᓱᒃᑲᐃᓂᕐᓴᒧᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓇᕐᑐᒧᑦ
Arnaapik Series Trailer
About
Violence can be broken. We have to stop this cycle of violence. We have to stop the shame. (Lucy Tulugarjuk, 2022)
This 6-part docu-drama series delves into the current crisis of violence against Inuit women and girls within Canada. With a sensitivity and deep understanding, the female director trio (Lucy Tulugarjuk, Miali Buscemi and Maia Iotzova) uncover the layers of colonial, cultural and systemic factors contributing to this crisis.
To allow different perspectives and emotions, the directors chose to use partly a fictional approach to give a poignant layer of a narrative, taken from real life experiences and other histories, of a young Inuk woman - Elisapee – searching for answers and solutions around the death of her mother due to domestic violence. Elisapee comes into her own awareness around both her grief and beginning a serious search for answers to this tragedy and epidemic of violence. As she follows this search, so do the real people interviewed also open up, and discuss this subject of violence in conversations with the directors.
Through these six episodes,
1– Talking with Elders; 2 – Confronting the System;
3 – The Power of Women; 4 – Our Youth;
5 – Hear Us; 6 – Finding a Path Forward,
the viewer is led on a journey of discovering hard truths, incredible resilience and empowerment and hope for a better future.
