

This short documentary studies life in the village of Kangirsujuaq, Nunavik. In this community on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, children’s laughter fills the streets while the old people ponder the passage of time. They are nomads of the wide-open spaces who are trying to get used to the strange feeling of staying put. While the teenagers lap up Southern culture and play golf on the tundra to kill time, the Elders are slowly dying, as their entire culture seems to fade away. Elisapie Isaac, a filmmaker born in Nunavik, decides to return to her roots on this breathtaking land. To bridge the growing gap between the young and the old, she speaks to her grandfather, now deceased, and confides in him her hopes and fears. Grappling with isolation, family relationships, resource extraction, land-based knowledges, the influence of Southern culture and the ongoing impacts of colonialism on Inuit ways of life, Elisapie Isaac offers a nuanced portrait of the North.

Black Ballerina
2016 · Movie
Inuk Woman City Blues
· Movie
Jesus Camp
2006 · Movie
Good Game
2014 · Movie
You Can't Do Everything at Once, But You Can Leave Everything at Once
2013 · Movie
In Free Fall
2010 · Movie
Cartoonists: Footsoldiers of Democracy
2014 · Movie
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
2005 · Movie
The Prince of Nothingwood
2017 · Movie
Refugee
2016 · Movie
The Hunters
1977 · Movie
Life and Debt
2001 · Movie
Fatma 75
1975 · Movie
Dark Matter
2013 · Movie
Filmstudenten - in die Praxis entlassen
1971 · Movie
Young at Heart
2008 · Movie
Chuck Close
2007 · Movie
The Decline of Western Civilization
1981 · Movie
Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut
2008 · Movie
Jon Stewart: Unleavened
1996 · Movie