The film is playing an important role in preserving the language, its director Gwaai Edenshaw said.
It is in two dialects of the highly endangered Haida language, the ancestral tongue of the Haida people of British Columbia.
Plenty of films are somewhat incomprehensible, but a forthcoming movie is in a language that only about 20 people in the world can speak fluently.
It is part of a wider push to preserve the Haida language, including a new dictionary and recordings of local voices.
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