Aviliaq (Entwined)

Set in a 1950s Inuit community, Aviliaq (Entwined) tells the story of two Inuit lesbians struggling to stay together in a new world run by outsiders. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril is an award-winning filmmaker who works in documentary and animation. Her work has been broadcast on CBC and APTN and has travelled extensively to festivals including Hot Docs and imagineNATIVE. In 2010, her NFB animation Lumaajuug won the Best Canadian Short Drama at imagineNATIVE, and in 2011, her animated short film Sloth was selected for Telefilm's Not Short on Talent showcase at Cannes. In 2011, she was an Executive Producer on the short film Throat Song that screened at TIFF and made the 2014 Academy Awards shortlist.