Award-Winning Feature Film “Tautaktavuk (What We See)” free screening with director Q&A on June 23rd

The award-winning film Tautuktavuk (What We See), co-directed by Lucy Tulugarjuk (One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) and Carol Kunnuk (Welcome to my Qammaq, Being Prepared), will be screening at the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon starting June 21st with a special event FREE screening on June 23rd. Director Lucy Tulugarjuk will be in attendance for a Q&A after the June 23rd free screening. The film will have multiple screenings including the dates June 21st, 23rd, 25th, 26th, 27th, 29th, 30th and July 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

Tautuktavuk (What We See) was selected as a TIFF Canada’s Top Ten, won the Rödspoven Prize at Sweden’s Umeå Film Festival (UEFF), the TIFF Amplify Voices BIPOC & Canadian First Feature Award presented by Canada Goose and the 2023 imagineNATIVE Sun Jury Award on its nationwide festival run.

After experiencing a traumatic event, Uyarak leaves her community and family in Nunavut to live in Montreal. When COVID lockdowns close off the Canadian Arctic from the rest of the world, Uyarak is further separated from her closest confidant, eldest sister, Saqpinak. Uyarak doesn’t remember much about one terrible night of domestic violence, but Saqpinak does. Through zoom calls, Uyarak talks about healing from years of trauma and abuse, and how counselling and cultural reconnections are helping. It is revealed that Saqpinak is also experiencing domestic abuse at home. When Covid restrictions ease, Uyarak finally travels home to Igloolik where she embarks on a deeper healing journey visiting with family and elders, in town and out on the land. In a series of vignettes of heartache, healing and overcoming, Tautuktavuk (What We See) blurs the lines of both the fictional lives of the sisters and the non-fiction lives of the film’s creators who play the sisters, Lucy Tulugarjuk and Carol Kunnuk, respectively.

Tautuktavuk (What We See) stars Lucy Tulugarjuk, Carol Kunnuk, Benjamin Kunuk (One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, Searchers), and Madeline Ivalu (The Grizzlies, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) and is based on a script by Lucy Tulugarjuk, Carol Kunnuk, Samuel Cohn-Cousineau (Tia and Piujuq), Gillian Robinson (The Journals of Knud Rasmussen), and Norman Cohn (One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner).