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Zacharias Kunuk Is Making Inuit Stories for the Future with TIFF-Winning ‘Wrong Husband’
Zacharias Kunuk’s film adapts a 4,000-year-old Inuit tale, won Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, and trains northern actors to preserve Inuit culture.
- At TIFF, Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk's Uiksaringitara won Best Canadian Feature and is now in theatres nationwide.
- Drawing on oral traditions, Zacharias Kunuk developed the story from oral and real-life accounts, including the mid-1960s real-life incident, and worked with elders to revive practices missionaries discouraged.
- Set in 2000 BCE in Igloolik, Uiksaringitara opens with two young lovers, Kaujak and Sapa, pledged at birth and played by Theresia Kappianaq and Haiden Angutimarik.
- Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq recruited untrained high school students in Igloolik interested in portraying their own culture, as Kunuk aims to develop northern talent.
- Against a changing Arctic, Kunuk frames the film as preservation of culture and history for future generations, noting climate change delayed ocean freeze this year compared with years ago.
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Zacharias Kunuk is making Inuit stories for the future with TIFF-winning 'Wrong Husband'
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