The Shaman’s Apprentice

Premiering at Annecy this year, The Shaman’s Apprentice is an incredibly realised story of a young shaman’s first test - a trip underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below. Zacharias Kunuk, who directed One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (LIFF34), relates an equally detailed and authentically traditional Inuit story. When you close your eyes do you see spots, or shapes? Moving forwards, backwards, side to side? Do your ears play tricks on you? This film was most likely made by squeezing all of this out of your head. It might just be lockdown 2020 in its purest form.