Searchers (2016)

Original title

Maliglutit

Directed by

Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man returns from hunting to find his family killed and his wife and daughter taken. He sets out across the frozen tundra to track down the kidnappers.

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What happens

Searchers (Inuktitut: ᒪᓕᒡᓗᑎᑦ, romanized: Maliglutit) is a 2016 Inuktitut-language Canadian drama film directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Based in part on the 1956 John Ford film The Searchers, the film is set in Northern Canada in 1913. It centres on Kuanana (Benjamin Kunuk), a man who returns from hunting to discover that much of his family has been killed and his wife and daughter have been kidnapped. The film was shot in Nunavut with an entirely Inuit cast, and with contributions from a local crew. The production was troubled by extreme cold. It has received positive reviews in Canada, and was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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