There Is a House Here

Throughout his career, documentarian Alan Zweig has been a kind of awkward urban anthropologist, investigating unusual avenues others might never notice. With his latest, There is a House Here, Zweig takes on perhaps his toughest, most complex subject - the lives of Inuit in the far north. The implications of the documentary are significant in the context of Canada's ongoing rocky social dialogue. Taking a refreshingly sincere and self-reflective approach, Zweig admits to coming in with certain assumptions and acknowledges his sometimes uneasy lines of questioning. For some interviewees he is a tough sell. But his undeniable honesty becomes an asset in opening up frank discussion. (Toronto International Film Festival)