Twice Colonized

Twice Colonized is a documentary film, directed by Lin Alluna and released in 2023. A coproduction of companies from Canada, Denmark and Greenland, the film profiles Aaju Peter, an Inuk lawyer and activist who has lived in both Greenland and Nunavut, profiling both her lifelong fight for justice for Inuit peoples and the personal struggles and traumas she dealt with along the way. The film premiered in January 2023 at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. It had its Danish premiere in March as the opening film of the 2023 CPH:DOX film festival, and its Canadian premiere in April as the opening film of the 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. The film will be broadcast by CBC Television on September 13, 2023, as the season premiere of the documentary series The Passionate Eye. Production The film was made over seven years. Canadian filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril was one of the film's producers; she had previously made the 2016 film Angry Inuk, which had also started out as a documentary about Peter, but evolved into an issue-based film including but not entirely centred on Peter, as Arnaquq-Baril struggled to depict more personal side of Peter's life.