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Kunuk, which tells about families coming

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togetherfora winter celebration (in Inuktitut
with English subtitles); Starting Fire with
Gunpowder, directed by Inuit David
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The Waiting, portrays the romance of
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Donna's frustrations

prisoner's wife.
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