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One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

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A government agent tries to get an Inuit man and his children to move to settlement housing.

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Kate Taylor Globe and Mail 09/07/2019
3/4
The real-time effect... is compelling as its languor and its repetitions gradually reveal the deep cultural misunderstanding that is going on. Go to Full Review Janet Smith Georgia Straight 02/27/2020
A slow, blackly comic, and intensely important study in all that got lost in translation. Go to Full Review Pat Mullen POV Magazine 10/22/2019
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk returns its hero to his land and reasserts the values that Noah articulated so eloquently and patiently, but fell on deaf ears. Go to Full Review Kelly Boutsalis NOW Toronto 09/09/2019
4/5
The film flips the colonial narrative on its head by showing the exchange - full of mistranslations, jokes in Inuktitut that go untranslated and misunderstandings - through an Inuit lens. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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steve j 02/21/2024 Too smart for the masses. Lot of nuance in the dialog and the mannerisms. A great snapshot of the way of the colonizer. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Zacharias Kunuk

Director

Kim Bodnia

Isumataq (Boss)

Apayata Kotierk

Noah Piugattuk

Benjamin Kunuk

Evaluarjuk

Norman Cohn

Screenwriter

Jonathan Frantz

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Movie Info

Synopsis A government agent tries to get an Inuit man and his children to move to settlement housing.
Director
Zacharias Kunuk
Producer
Jonathan Frantz, Zacharias Kunuk
Screenwriter
Norman Cohn
Production Co
Kingulliit Productions
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 53m