ALFF Program - The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Thursday, February 9 at 12:00pm

Dir. Zacharias Kunuk
Nunavut, 2006, 112 minutes

From the award-winning creators of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner comes the first film to visualize the Christianization of Indigenous people from their own perspective. Set in and around Igloolik in 1922 and based on the journals of 1920s Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen, the film tells the story of the last great Inuit Shaman and his beautiful and headstrong daughter as they try to resist the changes encroaching upon their family and culture and make the choice between Shamanism and Christianity.

Screening sponsor: Air North, Yukon's Airline