Zacharias Kunuk focus
Overview of films
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Our Land – Episode 6 (Stalking)
Two dog teams search the Spring ice, men and boys hunt day and night. There are seals everywhere.
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Our Land – Episode 5 (Home)
Igloolik, Autumn 1945. In which Akkitiq wakes up and sees that it’s a lovely day for a seal hunt.
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Our Land – Episode 3 (Stone House)
In which five families build a stone house to prepare for the coming winter.
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Our Land – Episode 7 (Seal Pups)
Young seals: a spring delicacy, praised for their soft fur and tender meat.
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Fish Traps
Near Igloolik in the 1930s, a summer comes to its end. Three families build a saputi, with which they catch fish swimming upstream for the winter.<
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Our Land – Episode 13 (Happy Day)
Christmas, 1946: with lots of meat and warm shelter against the biting cold, it’s a great time for parties and storytelling.
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My First Polar Bear
Young Joshua Kunuk is taken on his first polar-bear hunt, to see the hunt itself, the skinning and cutting up of the bear.The boy’s grandfath
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Going Inland
Summer, 1930s: for Igloolik Inuit, this is the time for nunaqpa, the long quest for fattened summer caribou, to catch enough meat for the gruelling
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Our Land – Episode 11 (Caribou Hunt)
Autumn comes early and the weather is getting colder. Lakes are frozen and the sea ice gets thicker every day.
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Bowhead!
In August 1996, Inuit hunters from across the Arctic gathered to catch the first legal bowhead whale in more than forty years. This film traces the
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Our Land – Episode 4 (Ice Blocks)
Autumn 1945. People talk about the danger of the coming world war.
