(Canada), Joel Heath and the Sanikiluaq Community, 90 mins
Currents around southern Hudson Bay’s Belcher Islands once created a favorable environment for eider ducks essential to the Islands’ Inuit people. Starting in 1974, hydroelectric development on rivers flowing into Canada’s James Bay has altered those currents and even seasonal cycles. Using extraordinary cinematography and complementary acoustics, this film argues that these northern people’s struggle to preserve their world is our struggle, too. —SH