PIQSIQ Performance - Chan Centre DOT COM series

The major differences between men and women in education and career choices. The reality to show that the hunters and fishers, and their wives, are deeply proud of what they are doing, despite society requiring Greenlanders to be educated. I follow two hunters and fishers, their wives and a BA

Featuring stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes you through time into the world of the Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Canada's Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present and future is a unique relationship with the eider duck. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters.

A piqsiq is a natural phenomenon, a wind storm that conjures the impression of snow falling back up towards the sky. For sisters Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik, this chaotically beautiful northern image encapsulates the joys and struggles of navigating mixed Indigeneity in a world where reclaiming one’s culture can be a radical act.… Read more

The world's first Haida-language feature film, co-directed by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown. Produced in collaboration Council of the Haida Nation, Skidegate and Old Masset Band Councils.

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72 years have passed as deer herder Vukvukai lives in the depths of Chukotka. He is an old man full of energy and wisdom – The Real Man of Tundra whose life cannot be seen apart from the deer. His people take care of a huge herd – over 14,000 deer.

This unique animadoc from director Aleksei Vakhrushev is a spectacular and visually impressive cinematic story about the vitality of the ancient Arctic culture.

Inuit and Cree of Nunavik (Northern Québec) recount how they escaped the economic oppression of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Overcoming tremendous challenges, in 1959 they founded a co operative; then other communities followed suit. Today, the federation they created contributes as part of Nunavik’s co-operative movement, with accumulated assets exceeding half a billion dollars!

ᐃᑭᓖᑦ ᒪᒥᓴᖅᑎᓂᑦ, ᑐᑭᒧᐊᒃᑎᑦᑎᔨ ᕉᒪᓂ ᒪᒃᑭᒃ ᓇᖕᒥᓂᖅ ᐃᖏᕐᕋᓂᖃᖅᐳᖅ ᓴᐃᒻᒪᖃᑎᒌᖕᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᒪᒃᑭᒃ ᐅᖃᖅᐳᖅ, ‘ᖃᓄᖅ ᐅᕙᒍᑦ ᐃᓅᓪᓗᑕ ᓴᐃᒻᒪᖃᑎᒌᒍᓐᓇᖅᐱᑕ ᐅᕙᑦᑎᓐᓄᑦ’?

In Wounded Healers, director Romani Makkik takes us on a personal journey into reconciliation. Makkik asks, ‘how can we as Inuit come to reconcile amongst ourselves’?