Inuit Film Festival Program

Inuit Film Festival | Katersortarfik

Sunday June 27, 2010

7:00-7:30 PM People gather and are seated

7:35-7:45 PM Mimi Karlsen, Minister for Culture, opens the Inuit Film Festival

7:50-8:00 PM Co-writer Jean-Michel Huctin presents the film

8:00-9:30 PM 'Inuk' (2010) by Mike Magidson: - Premiere

9:30-9:45 PM Remarks from actors in 'Inuk'

(shortfilm)

10:00-10:10 'Tungijuq' (2009) by Félix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël Animation 7 min.

Igloolik Isuma Productions

10:15-11:35 PM 'Paalup Nuliarsarnera' – 'Palo´s Wedding' (1934) 79 min.

Iserneq Akeqanngilaq - Free admission

Monday June 28, 2010

1:00-1:30 PM 'Eyes of the Spirit' | Alexie Isaac | 1983 | Doc. | 30 min. | Alaska | KYUK Video Productions

1:35-2:00 PM '250 years of tradition' | OKâlaKatiget Society | 2010 | Doc. | 24 min. | Canada

Iserneq – Admission 20 DKK | 2 films

2:30-3:30 PM 'Western Arctic Claims' | Inuvialuit Communications Society | 2010 | Doc. | 60 min. | Canada

Iserneq – Admission 20 DKK

4:00-4:30 PM 'Nuna Qorsooqqissoq' - 'Green Land' | Aka Hansen | 2009 | Doc. | 25 min. | Greenalnd | Tumit Production

Iserneq – Admission 20 DKK | 2 films

(shortfilm)

Iserneq – Admission 40 DKK | Meeqqat - Kids 25 DKK

(shortfilm)

9:00-9:09 PM 'It´s a Living' | Sara Tedford Gold & Pitseolalaq Moss -Davies | 2010 | Doc.| 9 min. | Canada

Iserneq – Admission 30 DKK

Tuesday June 29, 2010

1:00-2:00 PM 'Whaling on the Coast' | Inuvialuit Communications Society | 2010 | Doc. | 60 min. | Canada

2:05-2:31 PM 'Kakkalaakkuvik' (Where the Children Dwell) | Jobie Weetaluktuk | 2009 | Doc. | 26 min. | Canada | Catbird Productions

Iserneq – Admission 20 DKK | 2 films

Iserneq akeqanngilaq - Free admission

4:00-5:35 PM 'Naalakkersuisut Oqarput Tassagooq' | Aqqaluk Lynge & Per Kirkeby | 1973 | Doc. | 92 min. | Flip Film

Iserneq – Admission 20 DKK

7:00-8:05 PM 'Qilalugarniaq' | Anda Hansen | 2010 | Doc. | 60 min.| Greenland | PREMIERE

Free admission – Iserneq akeqanngilaq

(shortfilm)

8:30-8:35 PM 'Why We Fight – Sooq Akersuuttugut' | Inuk Silis Høegh | 2004 | Artmovie | 5 min. 05 sec.

8:36-9:30 PM 'Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny' | Mark Sandiford & Zebedee Nungak | 2007 | Doc. | 52 min.| Canada | Beachwalker Films & NFB

Iserneq – Admission 30 DKK

Iserneq – Admission 40 DKK

Wednesday June 30, 2010

MEEQQANUT – For Kids

2:00-2:24 PM Nunavut Animation Lab x 4 – IBC & NFB:

'The Bear Facts' | Jonathan Wright | 2010 | 4 min.

'I Am But a Little Woman' | Gyu Oh | 2010 | 5 min.

'Qalupalik' | Ame Papatsie | 2010 | 7 min.

'Lumaajuuq' | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | 2010 | 8 min.

2:25-2:33 PM 'Nanoq' | Kunuk Platou | 2000 | Animation | 8 min.

Iserneq akeqanngilaq - Free admission

(shortfilm)

3:19-4:05 PM 'Nipaa Ilitqusipta' - 'The Voice of Our Spirit' | Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson| 2009 | Doc. | 46 min. | Alaska | Uncivilized Films

Iserneq – Admission 20 DKK

4:30-5:38 PM 'Qimmit' - A Class of Two Truths. | Ole Gjerstad & Joelie Sanguya | 2010 | Doc. | 68 min. | Canada | Piksuk Media & NFB

Iserneq – Admission 20 DKK

(shortfilm)

7:46-8:50 PM 'Welcome to Enurmino!' | Aleksei Vakhrushev | 2008 | Doc. | 60 Min. | Russia - Chukotka

Iserneq – Admission 30 DKK

9:15-10:40 PM 'Martha of the North' | Marquise Lepage | 2009 | Doc.| 83 min. | Canada | Les productions Virage & NFB

Iserneq – Admission 30 DKK

Thursday July 1, 2010

(shortfilm)

1:00-1:16 PM 'Where the River Begins' | Takashi Sakurai | 2003 | Doc. | 16 min. | Alaska

Iserneq – Admission 20 DKK

(shortfilm)

2:30-2:47 PM 'A Way of Making Life Beautiful' - Yup’ik Art Between Two Worlds. | Katrin Simon | 2007 | Doc. | 17 min.| Alaska

2:50-3:35 PM 'Oqarit Inuullutillu' | Pipaluk K. Jørgensen | 2010 | Doc. | 41 min. | Greenland

Iserneq – Admission 20 DKK

(shortfilm)

4:07-5:12 PM 'Staking The Claim – Dreams, Democracy and

Iserneq – Admission 20 DKK

Friday July 2, 2010

2:00-2:24 PM 'A traditional seal hunt in Nunatsiavut' | OKâlaKatiget Society | 2010 | Doc. | 24 min. | Canada

2:30-3:01 PM 'Umiaq Skin Boat' | Jobie Weetaluktuk | 2008 | Doc. | 31 min. | Canada | Catbird Productions

Iserneq - Admission 20 DKK | Meeqqat - Kids 10 DKK | 2 films

3:30-4:18 PM 'Qallunaanik Piusiksiuriniq' | Mark Sandiford & Zebedee Nungak | 2007 | Doc. | 48 min. | Canada | Beachwalker Films & NFB

4:25-4:55 PM 'Uncle Sam’s Men' | Mike Martz | 1995 | Doc. | 30 min. | Alaska | KYUK Video Productions

Iserneq - Admission 20 DKK | 2 films

Iserneq - Admission 40 DKK

NOTICE

Age limits for certain films will be noted on the programs for the present day

and the next day's films, and will be posted in Katersortarfik

(The Inuit Film Festival-venue) and at Katuaq (GA-venue).

Certain films are in English or with English subtitles.

MALUGIUK

Filminut aalajangersimasunut ukiut killingititat ullormut aqaguanullu filmigassat

allattorsimaffianni Katersortarfimmi (Inuit Filmfestivaleqarfimmi)

aamma Katuami nalunaarutigineqartassapput.

Filmit amerlanerit tuluttuujupput, ilaallu ataatigut tuluttut allagartalersugaallutik.

FILM DESCRIPTIONS

Films from Alaska

Inupiaq
Nipaa Ilitqusipta - The Voice of Our Spirit . 2009 Doc. 46 min. Dir. Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson. Uncivilized Films Iñupiat community members in Ukpeagvik (Barrow), Alaska, reflect on the impact of first contacts, which brought with them devastating diseases, and the undermining of the indigenous culture and language by the American educational system.

SIKUMI. 2008 Shortfilm 15 min.
Dir. Andrew Okpeaha MacLean. Kiuġuya Productions
An Inuit hunter drives his dog team out on the frozen Arctic Ocean in search of seals, but instead, he becomes a witness to murder…and knows both victim and the killer.

WHERE THE RIVER BEGINS. 2003 Doc. 16 min.
Takashi Sakurai. Takes the viewer deep inside Minnie Gray’s, an Inupiaq Eskimo elder, world of language – a place where the heart of Inupiaq culture resides.

Yup´ik
Eyes of the Spirit. 1983 TV-Doc. 30 min. Dir. Alexie Isaac. KYUK Video Productions / Bethel Broadcasting

Uncle Sam’s Men. 1995 TV-Doc. 30 min. Dir. Mike Martz. KYUK Video Productions / Bethel Broadcasting

A Way of Making Life Beautiful - Yup’ik Art Between Two Worlds. 2007
Doc. 17 min. Dir. Katrin Simon Yup’ik artists describe the importance of Yup’ik art as a return to Yup’ik values, in the context of the social realities of contemporary Yup’ik life.

Films from Canada

Nunavut

Qimmit: A Class of Two Truths. 2010 Doc. 68 min.

Dir. Ole Gjerstad & Joelie Sanguya. Piksuk Media & NFB

The mystery of how and why the sled dogs disappeared, a mystery that has left deep wounds across Canada’s Arctic.

INUIT HIGH KICK. 2009 Doc. 2 min. 28 sec.

Dir. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. Inuit Communications Systems

A stunning visual examination of an athlete performing the traditional Inuit high kick.

Staking The Claim – Dreams, Democracy and Canadian Inuit.

2009 Doc. 60 min. (3x20 min.) EnTheos Films & Nunavut Sivuniksavut

Four young documentary guides (Stacey Aglok MacDonald, Tommy Akulukjuk,

Pauloosie Akeeagok and David Joanasie) take the viewer on a journey as they discover the events and meet people that have shaped their past and changed their future.

TUNGIJUQ. 2009 Animation/Short 7 min.

Dir. Félix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël. Igloolik Isuma Productions

What We Eat: Inuit jazz throat-singer Tanya Tagaq, and Cannes-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, talk back to Brigitte Bardot and anti-sealhunting lobby on the eternal reality of hunting.

Tajarniit. 2009 five short docs. 29 min. Tajarniit Productions

(Avaala, Kayak, Itta tent, Traditional Knowledge and Beliefs & Importance of the Seal)

Dir. Myna Ishulutak. Producers Alethea Arnaquq-Baril & Stacey Agluk MacDonald

An all-Inuit all-female team have developed five short video vignettes dedicated to the parents who want to teach their children, but might not know how. And to all those who want to learn about the single most important resource for the survival of coastal Inuit – the seal.

Nunavut Animation Lab x 4 – Inuit Broadcasting Corporation & NFB

1. I Am But a Little Woman. 2010 4 min. 39 sec. Dir. Gyu Oh

Wordlessly evokes the beauty and power of nature, as well as the bond between mother and daughter.

2. Lumaajuuq. 2010 7 min. 36 sec. Dir. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

A tragic and twisted story about the dangers of revenge.

3. Qalupalik. 2010 5 min. 34 sec. Dir. Ame Papatsie

Deep in the Arctic Ocean lives Qalupalik – a part-human sea monster that preys on children who do not listen to their parents or elders.

4. The Bear Facts. 2010 3 min. 58 sec. Dir. Jonathan Wright

A self-important colonial explorer emerges from a sailing ship and plants a flag on the Arctic ice, as a bemused Inuit hunter looks on.

Before Tomorrow. 2008 Feature Fiction 93 min.

Dir. Marie-Hélène Cousineau & Madeline Piujuq Ivalu. Igloolik Isuma Productions

Ningiuq (Madeline Piujuq Ivalu) and her best friend Kutuujuk (Mary Qulitalik) are elders in an Inuit family in the mid-nineteenth century. During the summer, their community comes together with a neighbouring family to tell stories, marry the young and share food.

(Screening sponsored by INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ SECRETARIAT – IPS)

Issaittuq (Waterproof). 2007 Fiction 45 min. Igloolik Isuma Productions & Artcirq

Dir. Bruce Haulli & Kenneth Rasmussen.

This second Isuma-Artcirq co-production by Igloolik youth is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol to put reality and the past behind, the past keeps hunting him.

Inuvialuit

Western Arctic Claims. 2010 TV-Doc. 60 min.

Prod. Brett Purdy. Inuvialuit Communications Society

In this episode we will explore the history of the Inuvialuit, the traditional way of life and how they formed a grassroots organization to fight and take back their land and rights.

Whaling on the Coast. 2010 TV-Doc. 60 min.

Prod. David Stewart. Inuvialuit Communications Society

This is a story that tells how whaling was in the old days and how it is today. Elders, adults and kids take us into the beautiful world of whaling in the Beaufort Sea.

Nunatsiavut

250 years of tradition. 2010 TV-Doc. 24 min.

Labradorimiut series. OKâlaKatiget Society

Inuit in Nunatsiavut are still following a 250 year tradition brought back from Moravian Missionaries.

A traditional seal hunt in Nunatsiavut. 2010 TV-Doc. 24 min.

Labradorimiut series. OKâlaKatiget Society

We followed Joey Angnatok, a local hunter from Nain, as he went on a hunting trip. He tells us why seal hunting is important to him and how he feels about the views of non hunters.

Nunavik

Umiaq Skin Boat. 2008 Doc. 31 min.

Dir. Jobie Weetaluktuk. Catbird Productions

A beautiful and poetic film about a group of Inuit elders in Inukjuak, Quebec who decide one summer to build the first traditional seal skin boat their community has seen in over 50 years.

Kakkalaakkuvik (Where the Children Dwell). 2009 Doc. 26 min.

Dir. Jobie Weetaluktuk. Catbird Productions

Kakalakkuvik recounts the vivid memories of students from Port Harrison (now Inukjuak, Québec), the first group of Inuit to sue the federal government for compensation.

Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny. 2007 Doc. 52 min.

Dir. Mark Sandiford & Zebedee Nungak. Beachwalker Films & NFB

What's so funny about white people, otherwise known as Qallunaat to the Inuit?

Qallunaanik Piusiksiuriniq. 2007 Doc. 48 min.

Dir. Mark Sandiford & Zebedee Nungak. Beachwalker Films & NFB

In the spring of 2005 renowned Qallunologists from around the world gathered for the first-ever Qallunaat Studies Conference.

Canada (other places)

It´s a Living. 2010 Doc. 9 min.

Dir. Sara Tedford Gold & Pitseolalaq Moss-Davies. Blueberry pie production

While Inuit art is often positioned as quentessentially Northern, of the North, it is also urban and, for the urban Inuit artist, it is a living.

Martha of the North. 2009 Doc. 83 min.

Dir. Marquise Lepage. Les productions Virage & NFB

Martha was only 5 when she and her parents were lured away from their Inuit village.

Film from Chukotka

Welcome to Enurmino! 2008 Doc. 60 Min. Dir. Aleksei Vakhrushev. In a town so remote it takes a miracle to enter or leave, life unfolds with a cinematic style and rhythm influenced by Tarkovsky.

Films from Greenland

Paalup Nuliarsarnera / Palo´s Wedding. 1934 Drama-Doc. 79 min.

Dir. Friedrich Dalsheim. Written by Knud Rasmussen. Palladium Film

The story of a contest between two rivals for the love of a woman. The forces of nature will decide the winner.

Naalakkersuisut Oqarput Tassagooq. 1973 Doc. 92 min.

Dir. Aqqaluk Lynge & Per Kirkeby. Flip Film

About decommissioning of Qullissat coal mine, and with it the entire city.

Sinilluarit – Goodnight. 1999 Fiction 15 min.

Dir. Inuk Silis Høegh. nuna manna pictures

Comedy about sex and jealousy.

Nanoq. 2000 Animation 8 min.

Dir. Kunuk Platou. National Film School of Denmark.

A motherless polar bear cub and an Inuk boy forge a special relationship.

Why We Fight – Sooq Akersuuttugut. 2004 Artmovie 5 min. 05 sec.

Dir. Inuk Silis Høegh

We must take over the world! - join the Greenlandic Army!

Kalaallit Nutaat - New Greenlanders. 2008 Fiction 5 min. 44 sec.

Dir. Hans-Peter N. Bay. F Wild Productions

Greenland Year 2053. Number of students in Southern Angakkoq School is decreasing.

Nuummioq. 2009 Feature Drama 95 min.

Dir. Otto Rosing & Torben Bech. Producer Mikisoq H. Lynge 3900 PICTURES

After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Malik joins his best friend on his last boat trip into the fjord. 

Nuna Qorsooqqissoq - Green Land. 2009 Doc. 25 min.

Dir. Aka Hansen. Tumit Production

Marloqiusamik Sunniut - Double Effect. 2009 Doc. 25 min.

Dir. Aka Hansen. Tumit Production

Hinnarik Sinnattunilu (Henry and his dream). 2009 Feature Comedy 80 min.

Dir. Angajo Lennert-Sandgreen. Tumit Production

QILALUGARNIAQ. 2010 Doc. 60 min. PREMIERE

Dir. Anda Hansen.

INUK. 2010 Feature Adventure 90 min. PREMIERE

Dir. Mike Magidson. C´est La Vie Films.

The most difficult part of the journey will be the one they must make within themselves...

Oqarit Inuullutillu (Say it and Live). 2010 Doc. 41 min.

Dir. Pipaluk K. Jørgensen

The documentary is about a journey, were the director Pipaluk K. Jørgensen is showing her theater piece:" Say it and Live" through around Greenland ilulissat, Aasiaat, Sisimiut, Manitsoq, Tasiilaq, Qaqortoq, Narsaq and Paamiut. Anders Berthelsen has followed the Director on their journey.

Film from Sapmi

Sámi Nieida Jojk / Sámi Daughter Yoik. 2007 Roadmovie 58 min. 30 sec. Dir. LiseLotte Wajstedt. LittleBig Productions This strong story is portrayed through humoristic documentary narration, imaginative animation and musical editing. How much a Sami can you be, living in the city and without reindeers? Will she be accepted in Sameland?

Forfatter

English

Kalaallisut

Dansk

ICC Chukotka

ICC Alaska

ICC Canada

Charter

THAT we, the Inuit, are an indigenous people, with a unique ancestry, culture and homeland;

THAT the world’s arctic and sub-arctic areas which we use and occupy transcend political boundaries;

the world’s arctic and sub-arctic areas which we use and occupy transcend political boundaries;

THAT due to our historical inheritance and use and occupancy of our homeland we enjoy cultural rights unique to indigenous peoples and share common traditions, values and concerns; Read more about charter