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CLOSING NIGHT FILM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 @ 6:30 PM

National Museum of the American Indian

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UIKSARINGITARA: WRONG HUSBAND

WRONG HUSBAND

Zacharias Kunuk (Inuit)

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Canada

Fiction

2025

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100 min.

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*Reception to follow, sponsored by Ron Barcelo (By Invitation Only)

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SYNOPSIS

Igloolik, Nunavut, 2000 BCE. Kaujak (Theresia Kappianaq) and Sapa (Haiden Angutimarik) were promised to each other at birth. After the sudden death of Kaujak’s father, her mother marries a man from another camp tearing the young lovers apart. The promise of a better life quickly turns to a nightmare, with aggressive suitors backed by an evil shaman vying to win Kaujak’s hand. But Kaujak resists, holding on to hope that Sapa will one day make things right.
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Zacharias Kunuk (Inuit)

Zacharias Kunuk (Inuit)

Zacharias Kunuk is an Inuk producer and director, born in 1957 in Kapuivik on Baffin Island. He began carving and selling soapstone sculptures to pay for movie admissions, later using the proceeds to buy cameras and photograph Inuit hunting scenes; in 1981 he acquired a video camera and taught himself to make his own films. He is president and co-founder )with Paul Qulitalik, Paul Apak Angilirq and Norman Cohn) of Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada's first independent Inuit production company. His best-known work, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), was the first dramatic feature produced entirely in Inuktitut and was named the greatest Canadian film of all time in the Toronto International Film Festival's 2015 poll.
Zacharias Kunuk es un productor y director inuk, nacido en 1957 en Kapuivik, en la isla de Baffin. Comenzó tallando y vendiendo esculturas de esteatita para costear sus entradas al cine y, con esos ingresos, compró más tarde cámaras con las que fotografió escenas de caza inuit; en 1981 adquirió una cámara de video y aprendió por su cuenta a realizar sus propias películas. Es presidente y cofundador (junto a Paul Qulitalik, Paul Apak Angilirq y Norman Cohn) de Igloolik Isuma Productions, la primera productora inuit independiente de Canadá. Su obra más conocida, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), fue el primer largometraje de ficción rodado enteramente en inuktitut y fue elegida la mejor película canadiense de todos los tiempos en la encuesta de 2015 del Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto.

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