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Nallua

In 1943, within a few days, 25 people died at the Qarmaarjuit camp, on Baffin Island, Nunavut, which is over half of the population of this Inuit community. Still unexplained to this day, the standing theories that could help understand this tragedy will soon be disclosed.

Two survivors from this tragedy, Ruth and Elisapie, return to the location to pay final respects to their family. While waiting to leave the community of Pond Inlet, where they have been living for over fifty years, these two old women take one last look at the ocean that calls deeply within them this longed-for return to their ancestral land.

Beyond the personal and intimate look, this return represents a collective legacy for the community, an answer to their questions, to their origins.

The hope to bridge past and future.

  • Christian Mathieu Fournier
    Director
  • Nadine Beaudet
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 16 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 5, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    400,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    Inuktitut
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Babel Film Festival
    Cagliary
    Italy
    November 12, 2005
    European premiere
    Jury's Special Mention Award
  • Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
    Missoula
    United States
    December 2, 2021
  • International Film Festival Les Percéides
    Percé
    Canada
    August 26, 2015
    BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD
  • Festival International du Film Insulaire de l’Île de Groix
    Ile de Groix
    France
    February 8, 2012
  • Festival opening film: Indigenous Film & Arts Festival
    Denver, Colarado
    United States
    November 11, 2015
    USA Premiere
    Festival opening film
  • Québec City Film Festival
    Québec
    Canada
    November 9, 2020
  • Montréal First Peoples Festival
    Montreal
    Canada
    November 8, 2010
    World Premiere
Distribution Information
  • Spira
    Country: Canada
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Christian Mathieu Fournier

After studying cinema at Laval university, Christian’s cinematographic experience with documentaries began in 2002 with Mourir au large, a film that tells of the concerns of groundfish fishermen in Gaspésie and Maudite machine! a human portrait on the universe of gamblers addicted to video poker lottery. In 2004, his film Make money, salut bonsoir! on workers suffering from berylliosis at the Noranda mine won him the Public’s Award and the Enviro Award at the Festival de films de Portneuf sur l'environnement. He continued by directing LÉANDRE BERGERON, AVEC CONVICTION SANS ESPOIR (2008), and, in 2012, L'ANGE DES GRONDINES (Public’s Award at the Festival des films de Portneuf sur l’environnement). In 2015, NALLUA, feature-length documentary on two Inuit women who return to the scene of a tragedy that decimated their loved ones in 1943, earned him the Special Mention from the jury at the Babel Film Festival, in Italy, and the Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Festival International de cinéma et d'art de Percé. Since then, the movie has been noticed in over 12 national and international festivals.
Christian Mathieu Fournier is currently Co-Director of LA MAISON DES SYRIENS with Nadine Beaudet (WIFF - 2018 WINNER : Best International Film - Refugees & Migrants & Public’s Award at the FFPE). He is also Director of photography for the movies of Nadine Beaudet (Yolande Simard, The girl from the crater) and Lucie Lambert (Le grand châle d'Aamu).

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