Indigenous filmmaker (Inuit). NFB's special programs:.Cinéastes autochtones Competition. Agency - French program:.Réalités.doc.

Research, Elisapie Isaac ; writer, Elisapie Isaac ; director, Elisapie Isaac ; camera, Alex Margineanu ; location sound, Yann Cleary, Stéphane Barsalou ; editor, Marie-Christine Sarda ; sound editor, Martin Allard, Marie-Ève Livernoche ; foley artist, Lise Wedlock ; original music, Alain Auger ; music re-recording, null Studio Cozmo ; re-recording, Shelley Craig ; producer, Yves Bisaillon.

Participation, Naalak Nappaaluk, Danny Alaku, Timothy Etidloie, Bobby Qamugaaluk, Jimmy Kadjulik.

Recorded 2003.

In the vastness of northern Quebec, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, lies the village of Kangirsujuaq, in Nunavik. Here, tradition and modernity intersect on a daily basis. Teenagers lap up "southern" culture and play golf on the tundra. Their elders--many of them former nomads and hunters--are trying to get used to the strange feeling of staying put. Elisapie Isaac, a young filmmaker born in Nunavik, decides to return to her roots on this breathtaking land. To bridge the growing gap between the young and the old, she lets Naalak, an elder, and Danny, a young policeman from Kangirsujuaq, tell us what they think. She also speaks to her grandfather, now dead, and confides in him her hopes and fears. Above all, she asks the fundamental question: Can Inuit culture survive in the modern world? In English and Inuktitut, with subtitles.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

1st Prize Rigoberta Menchu Tum - Category: Community, 2003 Claude-Jutra Award for Best hope of the year, 2004 Award for Best Documentary Short, 2004 Spirit Award, 2003 Award of Excellence - Category: Documentary Short, 2003 Honorable Mention - Category: Social Issues, 2004

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).