Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner is a 2001 Canadian epic film directed by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk and produced by his company Isuma Igloolik Productions. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in the Inuktitut language.
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Filming took place in Igloolik, Nunavut.
The Cannes Film Festival in May 2001.
Inuit religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Inuit, an indigenous people from Alaska, northern Canada, parts of Siberia and Greenland. Their religion shares many similarities with some Alaska Native religions. Traditional Inuit religious practices include animism and shamanism, in which spiritual healers mediate with spirits.
Today many Inuit follow Christianity ; however, traditional Inuit spirituality continues as part of a living, oral tradition and part of contemporary Inuit society. Inuit who balance indigenous and Christian theology practice religious syncretism.
Sedna, an Inuit deity
Iñupiat dance near Nome, Alaska, 1900
Ikpukhuak and his angatkuq (shaman) wife, Higalik (Ice House)