Throat Song

Throat Song is a 2011 Canadian short drama film directed by Miranda de Pencier.

[1] The film stars Ippiksaut Friesen as Ippik, an Inuk woman in Nunavut who is trapped in an abusive relationship, and begins to heal her spirit and find her own voice after taking a job as a witness assistant for the government's justice department, aiding other victims of domestic violence.

[2] The film opens with young Inuk girl Ippik happily running across the tundra to her grandmother and throat singing with her.

Ippik talks to Tanner, a teenage boy who was sexually assaulted by his coach, and explains how to give testimony to the crime prosecutor, to his despair.

Later, she attempts to commit suicide with a hunting rifle, but hears the whining of the puppy and shoots its chain instead.