Tia and Piujuq (Inuktitut: ᑏᐊ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᐅᔪᖅ) is a Canadian family drama film, directed by Lucy Tulugarjuk and released in 2018.
[1] The film stars Tia Bshara as Tia, a young girl who has moved with her family to Montreal as refugees from the Syrian civil war; struggling to adapt or fit in within her new environment, one day she discovers a magic portal which transports her to an Inuit community in the Canadian Arctic, where she meets and befriends Piujuq (Nuvvija Tulugarjuk), an Inuk girl her own age who is also lonely and unhappy as she is spending the summer at an isolated hunting camp with her grandmother (Madeline Ivalu), with their interactions proving healing and transformative for both girls.
[2] The cast also includes Eiman Aljaber, Ghaiss Gharibet, Khaldoun Abdoulmajeed, Nicolas Abrile, Anjo B.
Arson, Jacky Qrunnut, Alexandre Apak Cousineau, Kayla Tulugarjuk, Damon Klengenberg, Cham Elhamoud, Jozafin Hazari, Charlotte Cortez-Robitaille, Laurence Guy, Elliott Jenny and Adam Elhamoud.
[2] Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy of Le Devoir rated the film three stars, writing that it was uneven and awkward in places, but that it featured moments of poetic beauty in its portrayals of both the multicultural urban streetscape of Montreal and the natural environment of Nunavut.