The Toronto Intl. Film Festival has unveiled its opening night film, the world premiere of Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn's "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen," several months earlier than usual.

Because Inuit people were nomadic, Adams wanted to start the project by crossing a broad region of land and sea. "I liked the idea of traveling in the footsteps of our ancestors," Adams said.

I started her character because, as Inuit, we have access to some pretty stunning history. We've heard, respectively, all of the issues as Indigenous people, but there's also the flip side.

Indigenous identity is seeing a revival in Greenland ahead of a March 11 general election called after U.S. President Donald Trump said he wanted to acquire the strategically located Arctic island.