Nigiqtuq ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ + Double M Country + The Home Team

This screening took place on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 8:30 pmYukon Theatre

Nigiqtuq ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ The South Wind

DIR. Lindsay McIntyre, 2023, Alberta, 17 MIN, Drama

Based on a true story, the film follows an Inuit mother and her daughter as they struggle amidst forced assimilation after being brought from Nunavut to a new life in the South by a Canadian police officer in the 1930s – Skábmagovat Film Festival.
In English and Inuktitut with English subtitles.

Double M Country

DIR. Carrie Davis 2023, Ontario, 24 MIN, Documentary

Carrie Davis was part of the child removal system near the end of the Sixties Scoop and spent her teenage years in a group home in Whitehorse. Now in their 20s, Carrie travels to her mother’s community of Moose Factory where they reconnect to their land, language, and culture.

The Home Team

DIR Suzanne Crocker , 2023, Yukon, 26 MIN, Documentary

A lovely, charming look at new Canadians in Dawson, and their immigration experience. Utilizing the changing seasons of Dawson like a metronome marching through time, we are introduced to a large set of new immigrants and watch as their perspective changes over time from bewilderment, to anxiety, to hope and lastly to belonging. While it doesn't shy away from the myriad problems of coming to Canada, let alone Dawson, it constantly reveals spirited discoveries, and joy among its cast.  GUESTS IN ATTENDANCE.