Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.

• Paul Apak AngilirqWriter
• Pauloosie QulitalikWriter
• Zacharias KunukDirector
• Herve PaniaqWriter
• Zacharias KunukWriter
• Norman CohnWriter
• Chris CrillyOriginal Music Composer

• Natar UngalaaqAtanarjuat
• Sylvia IvaluAtuat
• Peter-Henry ArnatsiaqOki
• Lucy TulugarjukPuja
• Pakak InnuksukAmaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)
• Madeline IvaluPanikpak
• Pauloosie QulitalikQulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)
• Eugene IpkarnakSauri, the chief
• Neeve IrngautUluriaq
• Abraham UlayurulukTungajuaq
• Apayata KotierkKumaglak
• Mary QulitalikNiriuniq