Tiny hamlet of Pangnirtung plays host to an alien invasion under the midnight sun
The sci-fi adventure story, co-written and directed by Nyla Innuksuk, opens with a group of girls enjoying the summer weather of the Far North. The forecast is bright: On June 10, the sun rises at 12:31 a.m., 19 minutes after it last went down. The next sunset is 23 days later.
Adults in the film are few and far between, most of them off attending a summer solstice square dance, leaving the youngsters to amuse themselves. And so teenager Maika and her friends borrow a boat for quick joyride out to the nearby tundra. That’s where they spot a polar bear. One of the girls shoots at it with Maika’s rifle, but then Maika’s little sister is attacked by the animal, and they fire again, finally dropping it. They’ve clearly seen polar bears before, but they can tell something is off with this one. “It didn’t move right,” someone says. Also, it bleeds black.Article content, an alien invasion horror where local kids prove to be Earth’s first and best line of defence.
Hitting both notes at once is the scene in which Uki suggests that the thing they saw was an Ijiraq, a shapeshifter out of Inuit folklore. Maika tells her she’s merely repeating “old people stories, made up because they didn’t have Internet yet.” Later, Uki crafts a new theory: “Not Ijiraq, no, but aliens? Oh yes. Aliens for sure. Probably.”Article contentslots nicely into a recent Renaissance of First Nations genre pictures that includes Jeff Barnaby’sby Danis Goulet.
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