Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Adäka Cultural Festival)

This screening took place on Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 7:30 pmYukon Theatre

Admission by donation. Screening as part of the 2022 Adäka Cultural Festival

The newly re-mastered first film in The Fast Runner Trilogy—winner of the Caméra d’Or prize and door-opener for Aboriginal filmmakers around the world. Atanarjuat is Canada's first feature-length fiction film written, produced, directed, and acted by Inuit. Set in Igloolik, Nunavut, the director, Kunuk, reminds viewers this is "a powerful drama, not a documentary." It demystifies the exotic, other-wordly 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 Inuktitut with English subtitles. There will be a 10-minute intermission at the half way point of this screening.

"The first Inuktitut language feature is also the most important film in Canadian history, bringing epic film making to a Northern legend." - Jesse Wente (Indigenous Screen Office) on CBC, 2014

Recommended for ages 12+ for scenes of violence and nudity.