Before Tomorrow (2008)

Original title

Le jour avant le lendemain

Directed by

Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Ivalu

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the 1840s, an Inuit elder named Ninioq lives in a small Nunavik community with her grandson Maniq. After most of their people die from smallpox brought by foreign traders, the two of them are left alone to survive.

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What happens

Before Tomorrow (French: Le jour avant le lendemain) is a 2008 Canadian drama film, directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu. The film is an adaptation of the novel Før Morgendagen by Danish writer Jørn Riel. It was the third film released by Igloolik Isuma Productions, an Inuit film studio best known for the film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, and is the first feature film to be made by Arnait Video Productions, a women's Inuit film collective. Set in a small Inuit community in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec in the 1840s, the film stars Madeline Ivalu as Ninioq, an Inuk elder isolated with her grandson Maniq (Paul-Dylan Ivalu) after most of their community perishes from smallpox transmitted by strange traders. "Their adaptation moves the setting from northeast Greenland to northwest Ungava (Nunavik) and from the 1960s to the 1840s, when explorers and whalers began to trade with local Inuit and transmitted contagious diseases." The film was shot near Puvirnituq in Nunavik, northern Quebec. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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