Maliglutit (Searchers)


Benjamin Kunuk
Maliglutit (Searchers) by Zacharias Kunuk
CAN 2016, NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema
© Kingulliit Productions Inc.

Benjamin Kunuk
Maliglutit (Searchers) by Zacharias Kunuk
CAN 2016, NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema
© Kingulliit Productions Inc.

Jocelyne Immaroitok, Benjamin Kunuk
Maliglutit (Searchers) by Zacharias Kunuk
CAN 2016, NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema
© Kingulliit Productions Inc.
With
- Benjamin Kunuk (Kuanana)
- Jocelyne Immaroitok (Aila)
- Karen Ivalu (Tagaq)
- Joseph Uttak (Siku)
- Joey Sarpinak (Kupak)
- Jonah Qunaq (Aulla)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Zacharias Kunuk |
Cinematography | Jonathan Frantz |
Editing | Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk |
Music | Tanya Tagaq, Chris Crilly |
Sound | Tobias Haynes |
Production Design | Susan Avingaq |
Costumes | Susan Avingaq |
Make-Up | Atuat Akkirtiq |
Casting | Natar Ungalaaq, Lucy Tulugarjuq |
Assistant Director | Natar Ungalaaq |
Producers | Zacharias Kunuk, Jon Frantz, Cara Di Staulo |
World Sales
Vtape
Produced by
Kingulliit
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 “the best Canadian film of all time” by a 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 at 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.
Filmography
1995 Nunavut (Our Land) 2001 Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) 2010 Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change 2011 Sirmilik 2013 Inuit Cree Reconciliation 2016 Maliglutit (Searchers) 2019 One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk 2021 Angakusajaujuq (The Shaman’s Apprentice); short film 2025 Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025