Arctic thriller In Alaska, starring Noomi Rapace as an FBI agent and Nunavut rapper Leo Matthew Tamela as a boy who attacks an oil pipeline, gets its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this September. Click for details.
Woody (Leo Matthew Tamela), a depressed 17-year-old boy from a tiny village in Alaska, does something grotesquely stupid: he shoots The Oil Pipeline and becomes a most wanted terrorist, hunted by the seasoned FBI Agent Susan Tarheel (Noomi Rapace).
The boy, who was fed up with living, is now running for his life. Lost in the wild, without a plan, Woody is not an easy prey. But as Tarheel closes in, she also identifies more with the boy. While Woody escapes across the state and into arctic Canada, he is reconnecting with the land, its people and the roots of his Inuit mother: he’s learning for the first time what it actually means to be alive.
In Alaska – Feature.
BC filming dates: September 22 2025 – October 24 2025.
Directors: Jaap van Heusden, Vinnie Karetak.
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Leo Matthew Tamela.
Dutch/Canadian co-production: Jswater Films, Experimental Forest Films.
Filming in BC:
Squamish
I only know it was set in Alaska @yvrshootstweets #squamish #northyards pic.twitter.com/zu4pPzdz2c
— Andrew Georgy-Embree (@aembree) October 6, 2025
At Abbotsford Courthouse:
Filming in Abbotsford this week pic.twitter.com/5StQ6Y77lh
— ChefB (@chefbk11) October 6, 2025