Angry Inuk (2016)

Directed by

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

14A

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian Inuit filmmaker defends the traditional seal hunt as essential for her community's survival. She and fellow advocates travel to Europe to challenge the EU ban on seal products. The film criticizes environmental groups for ignoring the needs of Inuit who depend on the hunt.

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What happens

Angry Inuk is a 2016 Canadian Inuit-themed feature-length documentary film written and directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril that defends the Inuit seal hunt, as the hunt is a vital means for Inuit to sustain themselves. Subjects in Angry Inuk include Arnaquq-Baril herself as well as Aaju Peter, an Inuit seal hunt advocate, lawyer and seal fur clothing designer who depends on the sealskins for her livelihood. Partially shot in the filmmaker's home community of Iqaluit, as well as Kimmirut and Pangnirtung, where seal hunting is essential for survival, the film follows Peter and other Inuit to Europe in an effort to have the EU Ban on Seal Products overturned. The film also criticizes non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace and the International Fund for Animal Welfare for ignoring the needs of vulnerable northern communities who depend on hunting for their livelihoods by drawing a false distinction between subsistence-driven Inuit hunters and profit-driven commercial hunters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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