Dedicated to telling stories from the North, the NFB is proud to present these five powerful and illuminating documentaries.
WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) by Jules Arita Koostachin (80 min)
Saturday, Feb. 10, at 3 p.m. | Yukon Arts Centre
- For generations, the suffering of residential school Survivors has radiated outward, impacting Indigenous families and communities. Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin’s deeply personal documentary moves beyond intergenerational trauma, with an invitation to unravel the tangled threads of silence and unite in collective freedom and power.
- Partly shot in Whitehorse, the film features local counsellor Maisie Smith, a member of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.
- Award-winning director Jules Arita Koostachin (Attawapiskat) will attend the screening.
A Quiet Girl by Adrian Wills (86 min)
Monday, Feb. 12, at 12 p.m. | Yukon Arts Centre
- Adopted Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills discovers, on camera and in real time, the startling truths of his complex beginnings in Newfoundland. Wills’ voyage to find his birth mother transforms from an urgent search for identity into a moving quest to give a quiet girl her voice.
Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher by Heather Campbell (15 min)
Preceding A Quiet Girl on Feb. 12
- Directed by well-known Inuk artist Heather Campbell, originally from the small community of Rigolet, Labrador, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is part oral history and part visual poem. It tells the story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational system in Rigolet.
Losing Blue by Leanne Allison (16 min)
Friday, Feb. 9, at 1 p.m. | Yukon Arts Centre, preceding Silvicola
- Losing Blue is a cinematic poem about what it means to lose the otherworldly blues of ancient mountain lakes, now fading due to climate change.
- Alberta filmmaker Leanne Allison, best known to Yukon audiences for her award-winning feature-length NFB documentary Being Caribou (2004), in which she follows a herd of 120,000 caribou across 1,500 km of Arctic tundra, will attend the screening.
Hebron Relocation by Holly Andersen (15 min)
Monday, Feb. 12, at 8:30 p.m. | Yukon Theatre in ALFF Short Films: We Are All Different Holly Andersen, a filmmaker and photographer from the community of Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, explores what makes a place a home as she learns more about her community’s connection to generations of displaced northern Labrador Inuit.
