Zacharias Kunuk

The director is the co-founder of Isuma, Canada’s first independent Inuit production company. His debut feature film, "Atanarjuat the Fast Runner", won the 2001 Camera d’Or and was voted “Best Canadian Film of all-time” by the Critic’s Poll at the Toronto International Film Festival. To date, he has directed over 30 documentaries and feature films including the Oscar-nominated animation "Angakusajaujuq – The Shaman’s Apprentice". His work has already screened several times in the Berlinale, with "Maliglutit" (Searchers) and "Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change" presented in the NATIVe section devoted to Indigenous filmmaking from 2013 to 2019.