By Alex Nino Gheciu Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk says his new fantasy feature is as much about the future as it is about a 4,000-year-old tale. \u201cWe\u2019re thinking a hundred years from now, when we’re down in the ground, people will study these films,\u201d says the 68-year-old. \u201cSo we have to try to do it right.\u201d Set in 2000 BCE in Igloolik, Nunavut, \u201cUiksaringitara\u201d (\u201cWrong Husband\u201d) opens with two young lovers, Kaujak and Sapa \u2014 played by Theresia Kappianaq and Haiden Angutimarik \u2014 who were pledged to each other at birth. Their bond is tested when Kaujak\u2019s mother remarries after her husband\u2019s death, sending her to a different camp. Guided by spirit helpers \u2014 and stalked by a lumbering, child-thieving troll \u2014 they set out on separate paths in hopes… <\/p>\n
By Alex Nino Gheciu Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk says his new fantasy feature is as much about the future as it is about a 4,000-year-old tale. \u201cWe\u2019re thinking a hundred years from now, when we’re down in the ground, people will study these films,\u201d says the 68-year-old. \u201cSo we have to try to do it right.\u201d Set in 2000 BCE in Igloolik, Nunavut, \u201cUiksaringitara\u201d (\u201cWrong Husband\u201d) opens with two young lovers, Kaujak and Sapa \u2014 played by Theresia Kappianaq and Haiden Angutimarik \u2014 who were pledged to each other at birth. Their bond is tested when Kaujak\u2019s mother remarries after her husband\u2019s death, sending her to a different camp. Guided by spirit helpers \u2014 and stalked by a lumbering, child-thieving troll \u2014 they set out on separate paths in hopes... <\/p>\n