Underplayed Gems

Tia and Piujuq (2018)

Tia and Piujuq poster
Directed by
Lucy Tulugarjuk
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 17m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young Syrian refugee in Montreal struggles to fit in. She finds a magic portal that takes her to the Arctic, where she befriends an Inuk girl who is also lonely.

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What happens

Tia and Piujuq (Inuktitut: ᑏᐊ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᐅᔪᖅ) is a Canadian family drama film, directed by Lucy Tulugarjuk and released in 2018. The film stars Tia Bshara as Tia, a young girl who has moved with her family to Montreal as refugees from the Syrian civil war; struggling to adapt or fit in within her new environment, one day she discovers a magic portal which transports her to an Inuit community in the Canadian Arctic, where she meets and befriends Piujuq (Nuvvija Tulugarjuk), an Inuk girl her own age who is also lonely and unhappy as she is spending the summer at an isolated hunting camp with her grandmother (Madeline Ivalu), with their interactions proving healing and transformative for both girls. The cast also includes Eiman Aljaber, Ghaiss Gharibet, Khaldoun Abdoulmajeed, Nicolas Abrile, Anjo B. Arson, Jacky Qrunnut, Alexandre Apak Cousineau, Kayla Tulugarjuk, Damon Klengenberg, Cham Elhamoud, Jozafin Hazari, Charlotte Cortez-Robitaille, Laurence Guy, Elliott Jenny and Adam Elhamoud. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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