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- DirectorZacharias KunukStarsNatar UngalaaqSylvia IvaluPeter-Henry ArnatsiaqThe telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.
- DirectorBenoit PilonStarsNatar UngalaaqÉveline GélinasPaul-André BrasseurIn 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii's illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages. By sharing his culture with Kaki and opening it up to others, Tivii rediscovers his pride and energy. Ultimately he also rediscovers hope through a plan to adopt Kaki, bring him home and make him part of his family.
- DirectorStephen A. SmithJulia SzucsStarsNavarana K'AvigakTwo Inuit communities are linked by an 1860's migration led by an intrepid shaman. Navarana, Inughuit elder and descendant of the shaman, senses the consequences of rapid social and environmental change, and wonders about the future.
- DirectorJohn WalkerStarsJohn AmagoalikOo AqpikTagak CurleyArctic Defenders is a story of visionary Inuit who had a dream - the creation of Nunavut, Canada.
- DirectorKine BomanStarsAina JonssonLars Jonas OmmaLisa OmmaTravelling across vast swathes of the Scandinavian hinterland, the life of the herdswoman is under threat from the ruthless global appetite for resource.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsEdgar DearingPeter FreuchenEdward HearnThe happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsChuck NorrisLouis Gossett Jr.Melody AndersonA pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache hoard of gold.
- DirectorCharles Martin SmithStarsBarry PepperAnnabella PiugattukJames CromwellA pilot and his passenger struggle for survival after crashing in the Arctic tundra.
- DirectorFranz Josef GottliebStarsLex BarkerMarie VersiniRalf WolterIn Kurdistan Ahmed, the sheikh's son of Halef's Bedouin tribe, is captured by the Turkish governor's militia. Kara Ben Nemsi and Halef try to rescue him and re-meet Sir David Lindsay who is venturing to help a lady in distress.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsLex BarkerMarie VersiniRalf WolterWhen a villain named "the Shoot" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules. Heroic Kara Ben Nemsi (Lex Barker), and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him
- DirectorClaude MassotStarsCharles DanceAdamie Quasiak InukpukSeporah Q. UngalaqIn 1922 the first documentary came on the big screen: Nanook of the North (1922). Kabloonak is the story of the making of this movie.
- DirectorAndrew Okpeaha MacLeanStarsJosiah PatkotakFrank Qutuq IrelanJohn MillerIn Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.
- DirectorMalik KleistStarsEqaluk HøeghMike ThomsenAviaja Hegelund JohansenA group of young friends decide to go on a graduation trip for the weekend to a family owned cabin in the isolated mountains of Greenland. Once there, trouble manifests when they discover they aren't alone, and there could actually be some truth behind a local urban legend.
- DirectorMichel PouletteStarsRoseanne SupernaultIpeelie OotoovaUapshkuss ThernishA Canadian aboriginal woman journeys to the Arctic in search of a missing member of her tribe, and falls in love with a man from a rival clan.
- DirectorGulshat OmarovaStarsNeisipkul OmarbekovaFarkhad AmankulovAlmat AyanovAidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile couples children. As capitalist forces begin to encroach on tradition, the first casualty is any culture's most fundamental inheritance - land. The healer has to leave her land because the mob thinks the location is suitable for a filling station. A harsh battle between supernatural good and earthly evil ensues. Native Dancer evokes the mysticism of fantasy and the thrills of a gangster film. Featuring Neisipkul Omarbekova, a real-life Kazakh witch doctor, in the title role.
- DirectorTorben BechOtto RosingStarsLars RosingAngunnguaq LarsenJulie BerthelsenA love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams.
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsAllakariallakAlice NevalingaCunayouIn this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsWarren OatesTimothy BottomsLouis Gossett Jr.In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsFranco NeroVirna LisiFernando ReyThe wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.
- DirectorIsabel CoixetStarsJuliette BinocheRinko KikuchiGabriel ByrneNobody Wants the Night is about the relentless icy landscape that separates and draws these two women together during the long, tense wait for the man they both love in such different ways.
- StarsJack O'ConnellColin FarrellSam SpruellA disgraced former military doctor embarks as a surgeon aboard a whaler bound for the Arctic, where his quest for redemption becomes a fight for survival.