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Film
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
Zacharias Kunuk
111 min., 2019, Canada, Inuktitut, English and French with English subtitles
This film dramatises the true story of Noah Piugattuk, an Inuk hunter, over the course of one day in 1961, when he was approached by a Canadian government agent who encouraged him to give up his traditional Inuit lifestyle and assimilate into a normative Canadian settlement. The film portrays a dramatic dilemma about life choices imposed on indigenous communities by the Canadian authorities.