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Angry Inuk

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
2016 | 1 h 22 min

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In her award-winning documentary, director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit as they campaign to challenge long-established perceptions of seal hunting. Armed with social media and their own sense of humour and justice, this group is bringing its own voice into the conversation and presenting themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.

Awards and distinctions

  • DocsBarcelona of the Month Audience Award
    DocsBarcelona of the Month, Barcelona
    2018
  • Audience Choice Award for 2017
    Cinema Politica, Montréal
    2018
  • Best Documentary
    Indianer Inuit Film Festival, Stuttgart
    2018
  • Best Film for Human Rights and Freedom
    International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Bir Duino-Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek
    2017
  • Audience Award
    Canadian Film Festival, Dieppe
    2017
  • Student Jury Prize
    Canadian Film Festival, Dieppe
    2017
  • Coup de coeur du jury
    Canadian Film Festival, Dieppe
    2017
  • APTN Award
    First Peoples' Festival (Land InSights), Montréal
    2017
  • PUCCA Audience's Choice
    Green Film Festival, Seoul
    2017
  • Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Documentary
    Available Light Film Festival, Whitehorse
    2017
  • Social Justice Award for Documentary Film
    International Film Festival, Santa Barbara
    2017
  • People's Choice Award
    Canada's Top 10, Toronto
    2017
  • Womens Inmates' Award
    Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, Montréal
    2016
  • Magnus Isacsson Award
    Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, Montréal
    2016
  • People's Choice Award
    Zonta Film Festival, Kitchener
    2016
  • Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award
    Imagine Native Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto
    2016
  • Audience Award
    Imagine Native Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto
    2016
  • Best Feature - Canadian Award
    Annual Dreamspeakers / International Aboriginal Cultural, Artistic and Film Festival, Edmonton
    2016
  • Canadian Documentary Promotion Award- $25,000 cash prize to support the marketing and promotion of the film to new Canadian and international audiences
    Hot Docs, Toronto
    2016
  • Vimeo On Demand Audience Award
    Hot Docs, Toronto
    2016