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Original-Cin Chat: Zacharias Kunuk on Trolls, The Fog Lady, and True Love in Wrong Husband

Original-Cin Chat: Zacharias Kunuk on Trolls, The Fog Lady, and True Love in Wrong Husband

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 27, 2025Zacharias Kunuk, TIFF '25, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband), Canadian films, Canadian films at TIFF, Theresia Kappianaq, Haiden Angutimarik, Inuit directors, Drama, Fable, Indigenous storytellingComment

Slash/Back: Teen Girls Fight Aliens in an Indigenous Addition to the Monsters-in-the-Arctic Genre

Slash/Back: Teen Girls Fight Aliens in an Indigenous Addition to the Monsters-in-the-Arctic Genre

By Thom Ernst

ReviewJim SlotekJune 23, 2022Canadian horror films, Slash/Back, Inuit directors, The Goonies, Young people fighting monsters, Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Tasiana Shirley, Alexis Vincent-WolfeComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Inuit Horror Filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk on her Debut Slash/Back and Goonies Influence

Original-Cin Q&A: Inuit Horror Filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk on her Debut Slash/Back and Goonies Influence

By Thom Ernst

InterviewJim SlotekJune 23, 2022Canadian horror films, Slash/Back, Inuit directors, The Goonies, Young people fighting monsters, Pangnirtung, NunavutComment