Maïna (2013)
Género : Aventura, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 43M
Director : Michel Poulette
Sinopsis
Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his clan and the clan of "Men of the Land of Ice." Following this confrontation, Maïna chooses a mission that will change her life. To fulfill the promise that she has made to her friend Matsii on her deathbed, she embarked on the trail of their enemies to deliver Nipki, a 11 year old boy that the Inuit have captured. But she was also taken as prisoner by Natak, the leader of the Inuit group, and forcibly taken to the Land of Ice.
Cinco días antes de Navidad, Isaías, un niño groenlandés de seis años, es encontrado muerto en la nieve por Smila, su protectora. Ante la indiferencia y la hostilidad de la policía, Smila emprende por su cuenta la investigación sobre la misteriosa muerte del chico.
En las plataformas de petróleo de Alaska, Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal, que debuta como director) trabaja como especialista en la extinción de incendios en los pozos de petróleo. Sin embargo, mucho más peligroso que eso es enfrentarse a Michael Jennings, presidente de una compañía petrolífera que ha obtenido enormes beneficios a costa de poner en peligro el medio ambiente. En esa batalla Taft cuenta con el apoyo de una activista nativa y de cualquiera que se oponga a la compañía.
Documental sobre la dura vida de los esquimales que viven en la región de Hudson, Canadá. (FILMAFFINITY)
Basada en una leyenda milenaria de un pueblo indígena canadiense, narra la historia de una maldición provocada por un diabólico chamán. Los malos espíritus provocaron un conflicto entre dos familias que saltó generación tras generación. Hablada en lenguaje Inuktitut, lengua indígena de algunas tribus indias del norte de Canadá, obtuvo excelentes críticas por parte de todos los medios norteamericanos, sin excepción.
En los bosques del noroeste americano vive un niño indio llamado Kenai, cuya vida sufre un giro inesperado cuando los Grandes Espíritus lo transforman en un oso, el animal que más odia. Kenai se hace amigo de un osezno llamado Koda y se propone recuperar su forma humana. Mientras, su hermano (que no sabe que Kenai es ahora un oso) lo persigue para cumplir una misión de venganza en la que está en juego el honor familiar.
Tyler, un experto biólogo, viaja a los desolados parajes del Norte de Canadá que lindan con el Ártico, para investigar las extrañas muertes de caribús, una especie de renos, que se están produciendo en la región y de las que todo el mundo culpa a los lobos. Una vez allí, con la ayuda de Osket, un enigmático esquimal, elabora un plan para localizar a los lobos, cosa que consigue sin dificultad. Sin embargo, pronto descubrirá que no son los lobos, sino cazadores furtivos los que diezman las manadas de renos.
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great Inuit shaman and his beautiful and headstrong daughter; the shaman must decide whether to accept the Christian religion that is converting the Inuit across Greenland.
Durante un viaje a Montreal, Avik, un joven esquimal enfermo de tuberculosis, conoce a una hermosa muchacha mestiza llamada Albertine y se enamora de ella; pero la joven, a pesar de que la atracción es mutua, tiene la obsesión de casarse con un hombre blanco.
In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii's illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages. By sharing his culture with Kaki and opening it up to others, Tivii rediscovers his pride and energy. Ultimately he also rediscovers hope through a plan to adopt Kaki, bring him home and make him part of his family
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves.
In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young Icelandic boy has to fight for his friends existence against the ignorant villagers, who want him imprisoned or even killed
A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiance, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not waited for her and he is about to be married to his assisting nurse. Eva travels to a small fishing village to await the next ship back to Denmark. There she enters into a tense and often confrontational relationship with Jens, a quiet moody Dane who manages a trading company outpost. Meanwhile, Jens is trying to persuade a Greenlander named Pavia to become a company fisherman, despite Pavia's fear of alienating his fellow villagers and upsetting the spirit, Qivitoq.
Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow - the northernmost community in the United States. As their climate and culture undergo profound changes, they strive to balance being modern American kids and the inheritors of an endangered way of life.
A love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams.
Animated Canadian film.
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
La historia de un oso polar y de varios esquimales que intentan darle caza. Primer cortometraje de estudiante de Andrew Stanton (Buscando a Nemo, Wall·E) realizado mientras cursaba en CalArts. Fue distribuido públicamente por primera vez en el DVD/BluRay recopilatorio "Los mejores cortos de Pixar (Vol. 2)".
Danish documentary following different locations and situations in Greenland anno 1914. It comes around settlements, hunters, steamboats, umiaks, a kayak race, and a football match. Photographed by W. Thalbitzer.
Danish documentary filmed in Greenland. Shows a lot of Greenlanders, skiing, hunting for birds, seals and whales, and ice fishing. Filmed by Dr. Leif Folke.
