Unikkaaqtuat

Unikkaaqtuat offers a behind the scenes look at an unprecedented collaboration of two circus troupes - one from a small community in the Canadian Arctic, Igloolik, and one from a bustling Southern Canadian metropolis, Montreal, as they create a major multidisciplinary circus production inspired by Inuit founding myths and Inuit oral history. This documentary mini-series follows its creation and performance as contrast, contradictions, and conflicts arise concerning the cultural and lifestyle gap of the North and the South, these two circus troupes work together, in great anticipation of their opening night performance.