#1: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | Arts Presents: The 50 Greatest Films Directed by Canadians
From the first shot of Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, as dogs howl on a frozen tundra in Nunavut before we’re launched into an Inuktitut-language story, I knew that I was watching something unlike anything I’d ever seen before.