Spotlight on imagineNATIVE: Hot Docs is thrilled to partner with imagineNATIVE to celebrate Indigenous storytelling. As imagineNATIVE approaches its 25th anniversary, this collaboration showcases groundbreaking films by Indigenous, First Nations, Métis and Inuit filmmakers, amplifying their voices on the global stage. A portion of ticket sales from these screenings will go to support imagineNATIVE's ongoing work in delivering the best in Indigenous cinema.
This adaptation of an ancient Inuit legend was filmed in Inuktitut and directed by Inuit filmmakers—making Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner the first feature film of its kind!
Set in Igloolik, in Nunavut, it is “a powerful drama, not a documentary,” director Zacharias Kunuk reminds us. “It demystifies the exotic, otherworldly aboriginal stereotype by telling a universal story.” The clothes, spears, kayaks, sunglasses and dwellings were all painstakingly researched. “We show how our ancestors dressed, how they handled their dog teams, how they argued and laughed… confronted evil and fought back.”
In the words of one movie critic, "If Homer had been given a video camera, this is what he would have done!"
In Inuktitut with English subtitles.
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