Isuma Productions Movie Trailers

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Trailer (2002)

01 February 2002

Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power.

Fish Traps Trailer (1993)

28 October 1993

As summer ends near Igloolik in the 1930's, three families build a saputi to trap fish going upriver for the winter.

The Nightmare Trailer (1996)

08 March 1996

An aqtuqsi is a dream from which one must wake up, a paralyzing nightmare. “I decided to put my aqtuqsi in video.

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen Trailer (2006)

11 March 2006

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.

Before Tomorrow Trailer (2008)

07 September 2008

Two isolated families meet for a summertime celebration. Food is abundant and the future seems bright, but Ningiuq, a wise old woman, sees her world as fragile and moves through it with a pervasive sense of dread.

They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit Trailer (2025)

18 June 2025

Through interviews with Inuit across Nunavut, and documentation of a three-year community hearing process during the COVID pandemic, award-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk explores what meaningful consultation in the 21st century means within the context of a large-scale mining expansion on Baffin Island.

Kunuk Family Reunion Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

In June 2003, Cannes prize-winner Zacharias Kunuk's family gathered at their traditional home camp site of Siuraajuk, to share stories and honor the ancestors who came before them: a wedding; a burial; messages from the past.