Opening Night Outdoor Film Screening
Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband)
Zacharias Kunuk • 100min • 2025 • Inuktitut (Eng. Subtitles) • Canada
Set in the Arctic over 4,000 years ago, Wrong Husband is an epic Inuit love story infused with myth, magic, and spiritual power. Promised to each other since birth, Kaujak and Sapa are torn apart when a stranger’s arrival upends their destiny. As forces of jealousy, hunger, and dark shamanic power rise around them, the lovers must defy the elements — and the spirits themselves — to be reunited.
Driven by the hypnotic, otherworldly throat-singing soundtrack of PIQSIQ, the film immerses audiences in a haunting Arctic dreamscape where love and fate collide. With its stunning imagery and pulse of ancient rhythm, Zacharias Kunuk’s latest work is a spellbinding journey through the tundra — a story of promise, betrayal, and the power of spirit to endure.
Screening time
7:30pm
(Doors at 6:00pm)
*** Free Event (donations welcome)
Genre: Historical Drama, Magical Realism,
Folklore, Love Story
Content Warning:
Mild violence and adult thematic elements including scenes of a sexual nature, traditional arranged marriage, mythical/folklore peril involving threatening troll-like creatures (Qallupilluit/kalupalik) that target children.
Director Biography - Zacharias Kunuk
ZACHARIAS KUNUK (Executive Producer/Producer/Director/Co-Writer/Editor) is the co-founder Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc. In addition to the feature Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (2001 Cannes Camera d’Or, “Best Canadian Film of all-time” 2015 Toronto International Film Festival Film Critic Poll), Kunuk has directed more than 30 documentaries and feature films including Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Maliglutit (Searchers), and the Oscar-shortlisted animation film Angakusajaujuq (The Shaman’s Apprentice). His 2019 film One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk premiered as the main art piece of the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, where Kunuk and the Isuma Collective were Canada’s representative artists. In 2003, he founded the distribution company Isuma Distribution International, to allow Inuit audiences better access to Inuktitut film and video and in 2008, the website isuma.tv In 2015, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2019, an Officer of the Order of Nunavut.
