En film som lærer oss om brorskap og livet som bjørn med betagende natur som bakteppe. Inspirert av en tidløs tradisjon som forvandlingshistorier er, og som finnes i mange verdenskulturer, er Min Bror Bjørnen en original historie, som foruten fantastisk animasjon, sterke følelser og humor har et fargerikt og minneverdig persongalleri, og tegner en uforglemmelig historie om mot, ære og selvoppdagelse. Bak karakterenes norske stemmer finner vi bl.a. Nicolai Cleve Broch, fra storsuksessen "Buddy", som låner sin stemme til en bestemt ung mann ved navn Kenai, som finner seg selv i en uutholdelig situasjon når han blir forvandlet til en to meter høy grizzlybjørn. Stand-up-komikerne Sturla Berg-Johansen og Jon Schau som elgene Tral og Rusk, som bringer frem mye latter som to enfoldige elger med nese for trøbbel. Ferdinand Falsen Hiis som lille Koda, som er en sjarmerende bjørnunge på leting etter en venn som vil hjelpe ham å komme seg til Lakseelva for en familiegjenforening.
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.
Alaska: En av Aegis Oils oljebrønner står i brann. Forrest Taft, spesialist i brannslukning, er fløyet inn. Han oppdager både den egentlige årsaken til brannen og de farlige planene til sin sjef, Jennings. Taft erklærer krig mot de skruppelløse oljesjefene og en kamp på liv og død er igang... Superstjernen Steven Seagal har skapt nok en eksplosiv action thriller!
A scientific researcher, sent on a government study: The Lupus Project, must investigate the possible "menace" of wolves in the north. To do so, he must survive in the wilderness for six months on his own. In the course of these events, he learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the wolf species.
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.
Aningaaq, an Inuit fisherman camping on the ice over a frozen fjord, talks through a two way radio with a dying astronaut who is stranded in space, 500 kilometers above Earth. Even though he doesn't speak English and she doesn't speak Greenlandic, they manage to have a conversation about dogs, babies, life and death.
In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair.
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.
Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his clan and the clan of "Men of the Land of Ice." Following this confrontation, Maïna chooses a mission that will change her life. To fulfill the promise that she has made to her friend Matsii on her deathbed, she embarked on the trail of their enemies to deliver Nipki, a 11 year old boy that the Inuit have captured. But she was also taken as prisoner by Natak, the leader of the Inuit group, and forcibly taken to the Land of Ice.
Smilla er halvt eskimo og født på Grønland. Hun har alltid hatt en eksepsjonell evne til å orientere seg i artiske landskap. En ung gutt faller ned fra et tak, det hele karakteriseres som en ulykke, men Smilla ser mønstre i sneen dom gir henne bange anelser.
The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
Three young Inuits set off in search of a promised land to save their clan from starvation.
Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of her husband, the explorer Robert Peary, who tries to find a route to the North Pole.
This short documentary depicts the formation in 1959 of the first successful co-operative in an Inuit community in Northern Québec. The film describes how, with other Inuit of the George River community, the Annanacks formed a joint venture that included a sawmill, a fish-freezing plant and a small boat-building industry.
With "sealfies" and social media, a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world of activism, using humour and reason to confront aggressive animal rights vitriol and defend their traditional hunting practices. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins her fellow Inuit activists as they challenge outdated perceptions of Inuit and present themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.
This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking co-operative in Cape Dorset. This film was nominated for the 1963 Documentary Short Subject Oscar.
In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northern Quebec.
“Those Who Come, Will Hear” proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec – all threatened with extinction. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung tongues through listening to the daily life of those who still speak them today. Buttressed by an exploration and creation of archives, the film allows us to better understand the musicality of these languages and reveals the cultural and human importance of these venerable oral traditions by nourishing a collective reflection on the consequences of their disappearance.
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.