One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk is a Canadian drama film, directed by Zacharias Kunuk and released in 2019.
[1] The film dramatizes the true story of Noah Piugattuk (Apayata Kotierk), an Inuk hunter, over the day in 1961 when he was fatefully approached by a Canadian government agent (Kim Bodnia) who encouraged him to give up the traditional Inuit lifestyle and assimilate into a conventionally modern settlement.
[2] The film premiered on May 11, 2019 at the Canadian pavilion in the 58th Venice Biennale.
[3] It received its Canadian premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
[5] In December 2019, the film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list.