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Title:Angakusajaujuq - The Shaman's Apprentice
The film follows the journey of a teenage shaman who must face her first challenge: a journey underground to see Kannaaluk, The One Below, who knows why a community member has gotten ill. The plot revolves around a grandma and her granddaughter who journey to the underworld to treat a sick young hunter. In this journey, will the duo be able to get what they are searching for?
Director(s):
Zacharias Kunuk
Country:
Canada
Language:
Inuktitut dialogue, with Arabic & English subtitle
Categories
Animation Film
Duration:
20 minutes
Production Year:
2021 (Middle East Premiere)
Zacharias Kunuk
Zacharias Kunuk was born in 1957 in a in Baffin Island. Kunuk has directed more than 30 documentaries and feature films including “The Journals of Knud Rasmussen”, “Inuit Knowledge”, “Climate Change” and Maliglutit (Searchers). His last feature, “One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk” (2019), premiered as the main art piece of the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Biennale di Venezia. He is also the winner of three Genie Awards, a National Arts Award and the 2017 Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association.