Accès au cinéma invisible presents Maliglutit (Searchers)

Pol'n

Nantes, France

April 15, 2026

9:00 PM local time

Free

French

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Maliglutit (Searchers)

Directors Zacharias Kunuk (Inuk), Natar Ungalaaq (Inuk)
Run Time 93min
Genre Action/Adventure, Drama
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Summary

Fifteen years ago, Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk won the prestigious Caméra d’or for Best First Feature at Cannes with Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. His second feature, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, opened TIFF in 2006. A decade later, Kunuk and collaborator Natar Ungalaaq have used the plot of John Ford’s 1956 western The Searchers as inspiration for a very different kind of revenge story, in which an Inuk man and his band of maliglutit ("followers") set out across the barren Arctic in search of the marauders who have ransacked his home and kidnapped his wife.

Like Ford’s film, Kunuk's Maliglutit (Searchers) explores the repercussions of violence, asking whether these hunters have begun to act like those who have torn apart their family. Very unlike Ford, Kunuk questions not only the colonial ideology inherent to the western genre, but also the possibility of justice in a seemingly unjust world. With a tale as timeless as the landscape in which it is set, Canada’s foremost Inuk filmmaker has provided us with another classic.

Cast Benjamin Kunuk (Inuk), Karen Ivalu (Inuk), Jonah Qunaq

Ratings by Province or Territory

PG
Alberta
NR
British Columbia
NR
Manitoba
NR
New Brunswick
NR
Newfoundland and Labrador
NR
Nova Scotia
PG
Northwest Territories
PG
Nunavut
NR
Ontario
NR
Prince Edward Island
G
Québec
NR
Saskatchewan
PG
Yukon

Event Primary Language

French

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