One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019)

Original title

ᓄᐊ ᐱᐅᒑᑦᑑᑉ ᐅᓪᓗᕆᓚᐅᖅᑕᖓ

Directed by

Zacharias Kunuk

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 53m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1961, an Inuk hunter named Noah Piugattuk spends a day on the land. A Canadian government agent visits him and pressures him to move to a modern settlement and give up his traditional way of life.

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What happens

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk is a Canadian drama film, directed by Zacharias Kunuk and released in 2019. The film dramatizes the true story of Noah Piugattuk (Apayata Kotierk), an Inuk hunter, over the day in 1961 when he was fatefully approached by a Canadian government agent (Kim Bodnia) who encouraged him to give up the traditional Inuit lifestyle and assimilate into a conventionally modern settlement. The film premiered on May 11, 2019 at the Canadian pavilion in the 58th Venice Biennale. It received its Canadian premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. At the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival, the film received the award for Best Canadian Film. In December 2019, the film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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