“An epic that feels both ancient and fresh … Kunuk delivers an engrossing photographic portrait of his homeland that is equally beautiful and intimidating … The work demands the canvas of a true big screen.”

Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail

Winner of Best Canadian Feature at TIFF 2025, the latest from legendary Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk is a mythical account of fated love and supernatural intervention—and something of a departure from the director’s customary verité approach. (The telling exception being a 2022 excursion into stop-motion fantasy.) Set in an ancient past among the camps of an Arctic community, Wrong Husband relates the story of a girl (Theresia Kappianaq) and boy (Haiden Angutimarik) promised to each other at birth, but whose union is imperilled by the arrival of an interloper from another village. As ever in Kunuk’s culturally informed and edifying practice, the particulars of labour, play, courtship, and shamanism are keenly observed. Unique here, however, is the tangible presence of magic in shaping events—from warring spirits to a ghoulish, shoreline-dwelling sea troll. Kunuk is cinema’s great Inuit storyteller; this might be his most spellbinding tale to date.

In Inuktitut with English subtitles

“Kunuk has once again created something special: a film made for and by Inuit, with a story that transcends culture … It will likely stand beside his 2001 Canadian classic Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner as not just an important film for Inuit culture, but as one of the most unique and special films Canada has to offer.”

Matthew Simpson, Exclaim!

“A beautiful and not unexpected achievement from a master storyteller.”

Jury statement, TIFF 2025
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