With the guidance of his … Now that I’ve been there, I love Berlin. They are trying to do anything they want. They are hunters. I don’t know if they were Mohawk or Iroquois. Directed by Zacharias Kunuk, Maliglutit attempts to engage John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) in conversation. If it doesn’t work, it’s his choice as director [to go for the best shot]. I went to school in 1966. Camera, we can do it. they’re hunters, not murderers. Sometimes we would sell our carvings and get in. For example, you use the camera, shooting through one opening, in the igloo breaking scene. That’s why we do it a bit longer. NU: It’s scary sometimes when you’re making a documentary. His father's spirit helper, the loon Kallulik, sets him on course to overturn fate and reunite his family. 7:30 PM 11,75$ (seniors and students: 9,50$) Taxes and fees included . He made Braveheart. Follow the film at Facebook.com/Maliglutit, Above & Beyond | Doris Ohlmann | September - October 2016, Nunatsiaq News | Lisa Gregoire| August 15, 2016, Benjamin Kunuk plays Kuanana, Joey Sarpinak plays Kupak and Jocelyne Immaroitok plays Ailla  in Zacharias Kunuk’s “MALIGLUTIT (SEARCHERS)”. May 4 Apr. Kuanana returns from a caribou hunt to discover his wife and daughter kidnapped, and the rest of his family slaughtered. We haven’t mastered sound. She said to me she was nervous, but I said, ‘It’s no use being nervous!’, ZK: Right now I’m making TV series called Hunting with my Ancestors. That’s her being tied up, and we finish it with her. The second time around, the Cree teamed up with the Eskimo. Hearing her live [at TIFF], she was amazing. Marc Glassman is the editor of POV Magazine and Judy Wolfe is a partner of Consulting Matrix and was formerly the publisher of POV. Zacharias Kunuk, director of Atanarjuaq: The Fast Runner and Maliglutit, sits in his office in Igloolik. We came back and volunteered ourselves for the whole year while they looked for more money. Then maybe in February, I’ll go to Berlin with it. ZK: We still have to bring crew up. JW: Thinking about the documentary aspects, you bring so much traditional knowledge to it. He wasn’t. After they were done, the women come in and made the bedding, the qulliq, everything inside. ZK: We had this idea, that when you’re watching a frame, there are so many things to see. ‘Whatever bad happens to you, keep going.’. So, he’s crying, and saying, ‘What kind of people would do this?’. Amazing. Free tickets available online. ZK: Down the road, I want to make a movie about The Eskimo Hunter. Smaller than this room. They confronted me in a bar and beat me up. Natar and I loved to see the movies. ZK: Movies have a star, and we were favouring that star. As you can see, they are sleeping with this man’s wife. The good guys are traditional. Réalisé par Zacharias Kunuk et l’acteur, réalisateur et sculpteur inuit Natar Ungalaaq, Maliglutit (Searchers) tire parti de l’austère beauté du paysage arctique pour en faire un personnage à part entière, de la même façon que le faisait John Ford dans The Searchers avec le plateau désertique de Monument Valley, dans l’Utah. ZK: We had an idea that sometimes real trees are flown in for Christmas. His father's spirit helper, the loon Kallulik, sets him on course to overturn fate and reunite his family. ‎Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy Maliglutit (Searchers) directed by Zacharias Kunuk for $14.99. TIFF announces Canada’s Top 10 films of 2016 > Suggested events. ZK: With the gun: there aren’t too many gunsand he has only three bullets—-we wanted to introduce when new things started to come, like the gun, the primus stove, the plate, the cup, metal knives. This time, the action is set entirely in Nunavut, Canada's most sparsely populated territory and home to what is perhaps North America's least-understood indigenous group, the Inuit people. Spoken entirely in Inuktitut, the new film zeroes in on a smaller-scale story of good versus evil, more immediate and desperate, and rooted in the Westerns that Kunuk grew up watching. Kununurra is Canada’s foremost Inuit filmmaker (he was born in Kapuivik on Baffin Island). So Natar and I started carving. It was tradition. June 24 Apr. To create his new film Maliglutit, Zacharias Kunuk worked with co-director Natar Ungalaaq and co-writer Norman Cohn on a plot they borrowed from John Ford's classic western The Searchers. Original Language: ZK: We want the world to see our life, our culture. The latest film from Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, Maliglutit) sees Inuit-settler relationships humorously and tragically lost in translation. Directed by Zacharias Kunuk, Maliglutit attempts to engage John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) in conversation.I’m not sure the Inuk film satisfactorily addresses the key issues and questions raised by The Searchers. We use that kind of storytelling from The Searchers to make this film. I’ll always be there for Zacharias. They would send them up by canoe to Fort Albany or Moose Factory. Have notification of new issues and content delivered to your inbox. NU: My grandmother used to tell me stories about love, once in a while when I was becoming a teenager, because that was more like an adult story. Kunuk uses his signatures style weaving intense action scenes with raw shots of the vast arctic tundra and lengthy sequences depicting the intricate details of the lives of Inuit people. Jocelyne Immaroitok plays Ailla and Benjamin Kunuk plays Kuanana in Maliglutit Find the perfect Maliglutit Searchers stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Maliglutit (Searchers‪)‬. I tried to include that with the audio, while the sled is moving away. You knew how to direct the action so it would be perfectly framed. Maliglutit (Searchers) - Official Trailer; Featured Cast. “Even if you didn’t know that Zacharias Kunuk’s new film is inspired by John Ford’s 1956 classic western The Searchers, you might easily guess it. ZK: It’s true they’re different. Movies. Zacharias Kunuk on Maliglutit & Preserving Inuit Culture Through Filmmaking. Le cinéaste inuit Zacharias Kunuk est désormais de retour avec une troisième oeuvre, Maliglutit, coréalisée par Natar Ungalaaq. I saw a woman being tied up. That’s how we do it. Nunavut, circa 1913. Zacharias Kunuk, Maliglutit (Searchers) (film still), 2016, 2016. I’m on my 16th film. ZK: Yes, that’s supposed to be the trigger. But that’s where veteran director Zacharias Kunuk finds his inspiration and passion, and where he returned for his revenge tale “Maliglutit (Searchers).” Kunuk rattles off the frigid hurdles he faced […] Canadian-Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s Maliglutit (Searchers) continues in the breathtaking vein of his unforgettable Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) with this story of cruelty and cold revenge based loosely on John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) and spoken entirely in Inuktitut. When we get to something difficult and we want to get our image, the key is to collaborate to try to solve it. Source: The Canadian Press Jan 18, 2017 By Cassandra Szklarski THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO _ Shooting an Inuit thriller in the frozen Canadian tundra has myriad challenges. JW: Is there a deeper story about civilization, or change due to modern weapons? MG: Certain choices are extraordinary. TICKET HOLDERS: Your free ticket will guarantee admission up to 10 minutes before the event start time. ZK: We used the throat singers as a bridge. Select from premium Maliglutit Searchers of the highest quality. NU: In the first script I read, there were more than three bad guys. Jeremy Chan WireImageGetty for TIFF. Unclaimed reservations will be released to standby customers. We watched a lot of cowboys and Indians films, so we knew ‘these are the good guys, these are the bad guys.’ But later on you know you’re on the other side, you’re on the bad guys’ side. MG: Natar, what does the co-director do? First year, they had a successful hunt. Inspired by the John Ford film The Searchers, an Inuit woman and her daughter are kidnapped by three Inuit men, while her husband and son are away. My Indian friends down here never cracked that system. 1h 34min. They show no mercy. When we did drama, we tried to recreate their time. ZK: The bad guys are very rude. He could deal with it much more easily than the Qallunaat. An Inuit take on the 1956 John Ford western The Searchers, and tells of … Watch this complete film on iTunes. Nunavut, circa 1913. It was our culture. JW: Judy Wolfe For the bad guys, we designed their outfits. They would talk to each other and say, ‘That’s going to be you and that’s going to be me; let’s see how this ends.’ They would point the gun at you, it would be scary. channel: Maliglutit (Searchers) Benjamin Kunuk plays Kuanana, Joey Sarpinak plays Kupak and Jocelyne Immaroitok plays Ailla in Zacharias Kunuk’s “MALIGLUTIT (SEARCHERS)” © … ‎Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy Maliglutit (Searchers) directed by Zacharias Kunuk for $9.99. Maliglutit, the latest film by Zacharias Kunuk (The Fast Runner), is essentially a spiritual remake of John Ford's seminal Western classic, The Searchers. Everything felt like god-sent. Directed by Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq. In 1965, his parents heeded the instructions of government officials and sent Zacharias and his brother to school in Igloolik, where they learned English. We hunted a bowhead whale this summer in Igloolik. Fifteen years ago, Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk won the prestigious Caméra d’or for Best First Feature at Cannes with ... Kunuk's Maliglutit (Searchers) explores the repercussions of violence, asking whether these hunters have begun to act like those who have torn apart their family. There were six or seven sod houses. We tried to use some of the lines from John Wayne movies. I looked at my mother, and she was sewing as if nothing was happening. [Laughs.] With the right sledgehammer! 30. Courtesy of TIFF Film Reference Library When you’re making a documentary, you’re like a detective, trying to find as much information about the subject. They would give them two big Hudson Bay canoes, and they would sail up the coast of Hudson Bay, hunting for Eskimos. We tap into there and into our Nunavut Film dollar budget, little bits here and there. I remember we had a sod house at the end of the camp. A man and his son track down a band of outlaws who has kidnapped his wife and daughter across the Arctic in Zacharias Kunuk’s Maliglutit (Searchers). The way we introduce the good guys—-they’re a family. We were hunters and used the weapon to hunt. Original lang: Inuktitut. Kuanana returns from caribou hunting with his son to find his family slaughtered and his wife and daughter kidnapped. We want to be filmmakers, just like filmmakers down here. I had really liked Zacharias Kunuk’s earlier film, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001). The white colour is beautiful to watch. We did that once but I want to do it again with better cameras. July 23 Apr. And Neil was talking to the Cree. There are little paragraphs saying, ‘The Indians are here and up to no good’. It’s a lot bigger now than before. Courtesy: Isuma Distribution International, Montreal. Instead of calling them ‘westerns’, we should call them ‘northerns’! Then if they come out right, they make it. He is president and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada's first Inuit-owned independent production company, for which he has made several short films and documentaries. Special event. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy is a game-changer for community-based filmmaking. Zacharias Kunuk was born in a sod house at his nomadic Inuit family’s winter home in Kapuivik, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). Maliglutit is produced by Zacharias Kunuk, Jonathan Frantz and Cara Di Staulo for Kingulliit Productions Inc. “I have spent over four decades in the film industry,” says Derek Mazur CEO of Nunavut Film Development Corporation, “and I have never encountered such a consistent and overwhelming level of creativity that I have witnessed in Nunavut. But when we were up there acting, the plastic froze [laughs] and it looked more dangerous than the wood one. We went to Ottawa to look at some archives, but they would never write it. Right now, it’s CMF Canada Media Fund. Everybody wants to be the director! He only has two bullets at the end to kill three people, and he’s losing, and he’s about to die, so we let her [kill the bad guy]. They were capped at $200,000 so nobody could make a movie in a million years. NU: We had to re-shoot in 1998-‘99 because we ran out of money. In 1981, Kunuk sold three sculptures in Montreal and brought home to Igloolik the Arctic's first video camera. ZK: No, he’s not a bad guy, he’s a shaman who leads the camp. Inspired by the John Ford film The Searchers, an Inuit woman and her daughter are kidnapped by three Inuit men, while her husband and son are away. 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