Atanarjuat (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ (fonts required)) (also known as Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) is a 2001 Canadian film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut. Set in the ancient past, the film retells an Inuit legend passed down through centuries of oral tradition.
Produced by Kunuk's production company, Isuma Igloolik Productions, the film was Canada's top-g...
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Atanarjuat (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ (fonts required)) (also known as Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) is a 2001 Canadian film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut. Set in the ancient past, the film retells an Inuit legend passed down through centuries of oral tradition.
Produced by Kunuk's production company, Isuma Igloolik Productions, the film was Canada's top-grossing release of 2002, outperforming the mainstream comedy Men With Brooms. In 2004, it was included in the Toronto International Film Festival's list of Canada's Top Ten Films of All Time.
The film is set in Igloolik ("place of houses") in the Eastern Arctic wilderness at the dawn of the first millennium.
The wind is blowing over a bleak snowy landscape while a man tries to herd away some marauding dogs. We hear the voice (over) of an old man singing a childish song. Inside a stone house a strange shaman by the name of Tungajuaq, who comes...
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