Centuries ago, in what would become the Canadian Arctic, Atuat is promised to the malevolent Oki, son of the leader of their tribe. But Atuat loves the good-natured Atanarjuat, who ultimately finds a ...

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Tue 3/29 Curated by actor and artist Michael Horse, the Briscoe’s Native Film Series continues with a screening of Zacharias Kunuk’s Canadian epic Atanarjuat: The Fast ...

It has been 80 years since the adventurous son of a Michigan iron miner trained a silent-movie camera on the everyday life of an “Eskimo” family in the Canadian Arctic and virtually invented ...

Do yourself a favor and ignore the running time and that thing about subtitles above. Yes, it's almost three hours long, and yes, it's in probably the most foreign of languages. But "The Fast Runner ...

The film legend joins Q guest host Talia Schlanger to discuss his new historical epic, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband), and ...

The context of the creation -- Seeing the unseen -- The people and the path of Isuma -- Isuma's motives -- The legend and its variants -- Reviews and awards ...

Based on an Inuit legend and made almost entirely by Inuit filmmakers, this totally absorbing 172-minute feature (2001), winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes, is exciting not as ethnography but as ...