Canadian Arctic documentary ——

Long before the land split, the road did.

Before pavement, there was permafrost — crossed by dog sleds, bush planes, and silence.

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For generations, Tuktoyaktuk was a fly-in, fly-out community, shaped by distance as much as by tradition.

Then came the highway.

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Before the Road Splits traces the quiet aftermath of connection. The newly constructed Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway brought access, goods, and opportunity — but also new questions.

What arrives when isolation ends? And what gets left behind?

Told through the voices of elders and youth, the film listens — without judgment — as a community speaks of change: some welcome it, others mourn it.

Roads link, but they also divide.

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Here, where climate shifts and culture stretches, every choice is a turning.
And every fork in the road becomes a mirror of the one within.

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