Screening times:
Thursday, December 18, 6:30 PM - this screening is free for Carbon Arc punch-pass holders!
Zacharias Kunuk | Canada | 2025 | 100m
Inuktitut with English subtitles
Screening followed by a special pre-recorded Q&A with director Zacharias Kunuk and co-writer/producer Samuel Cohn-Cousineau, moderated by Carbon Arc programmer Joseph Jung!
Zacharias Kunuk's new historical drama, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband), is set in Igloolik, Nunavut, 2000 BCE. Teenage lovers Kaujak (Theresia Kappianaq) and Sapa (Haiden Angutimarik) were promised to each other at birth. After the sudden death of Kaujak’s father, her mother marries a man from another camp tearing the two apart. The promise of a better life quickly turns to a nightmare, with aggressive suitors backed by an evil shaman vying to win Kaujak’s hand. But Kaujak resists, holding on to hope that Sapa will one day make things right.
ZACHARIAS KUNUK
Born in 1957 in a sod house on Baffin Island, Zacharias Kunuk was a carver in 1981 when he sold three sculptures in Montreal to buy a home-video camera and 27” TV to bring back to Igloolik, a settlement of 500 Inuit who had voted twice to refuse access to outside television. After working for six years for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation as producer and station manager, Kunuk co-founded Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc. in 1990 with Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik and Norman Cohn. In addition to Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, Kunuk has directed more than 30 videos screened in film festivals, theatres, museums and art galleries. He has honorary doctorates from Trent University and Wilfred Laurier University; is the winner of the Cannes Camera d’or, three Genie Awards, a National Arts Award, and the National Aboriginal Achievement Award, and just recently, the 2017 Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association. Zacharias Kunuk was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2015. His latest film, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) was the winner of the Best Canadian Film Award at TIFF 2025.
SAMUEL COHN-COUSINEAU
Samuel is the director of Isuma Distribution, a company dedicated to distributing films made and produced by Inuit and Indigenous filmmakers. He also works as a screenwriter and producer. He co-wrote the children's film Tia and Piujuq (2018), as well as Tautuktavuk (What We See) (2023). He is also the producer of two new films by acclaimed filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, including the feature film Uiksaringitara - Wrong Husband (2025), which he co-wrote with Kunuk, winner of the Best Canadian Film Award at TIFF 2025.
Tickets $12 ($11.40 cash at the door)
Entry FREE to punch pass holders! If you have a valid punch pass (ie a punch pass with unused punches on it), get ONE free ‘punchless’ admission to this film as a thanks for supporting us! Don’t forget your punch pass to validate your free entry on the night!
