1961. In Kapuivik, an Inuit man named Noah Piugattuk and his compatriots are visited by a white man who says they have to move to a reservation.
Acting
Apayata Kotierk's measured silence speaks entire histories.
Direction
Kunuk makes bureaucratic horror feel intimate and endless.
Sound
Wind, snow, and Inuktitut—no score needed.
Director
Zacharias Kunuk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Zacharias Kunuk is Inuk himself and shot this near his own community; the 'white boss' actor Kim Bodnia is Danish, continuing Kunuk's pattern of casting European actors to embody colonial presence.
The film's real-time structure mirrors actual 1961 recordings of Inuit relocations—Kunuk reconstructed these bureaucratic encounters from oral histories and archival documents.
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