Terrific films on DVD & video ... Any suggestions?

"Atanarjuat the Fast Runner" is the first-ever screenplay written in the Inuit language, Inuktitut -- and the first time's a charm. Shot on DV -- and looking terrific due to the exceptional light so near the North Pole -- pic captures an epic story rife with rivalries, evil spirits, sex, violence, native ingenuity, harsh elements and humor, that clocks in at an epic length. But any viewer who's grabbed by the first reel is more than likely to be captivated by the full enterprise. Made by a 90% Inuit crew, thousand-year-old tale of festering evil on the frozen tundra should find a warm welcome worldwide, particularly on the fest circuit.
Inuit storytelling -- an oral tradition active for four millennia -- is one of the world's oldest living art forms, with a method of written transcription introduced only in the last few decades. This saga of two brothers whose lives are deeply disrupted by evil in the form of an unknown shaman, circa 1000 A.D., has been handed down across generations to illustrate the dangers in a harsh landscape of putting personal desire ahead of the communal good.

Igloolik is a community of 1200 people located on a small island in the north Baffin region of the Canadian Arctic with archeological evidence of 4000 years of continuous habitation. Throughout these millennia, with no written language, untold numbers of nomadic Inuit renewed their culture and traditional knowledge for every generation entirely through storytelling.

For countless generations, Igloolik elders have kept the legend of Atanarjuat alive to teach young Inuit the danger of setting personal desire above the needs of the group.

If you can find "Atanarjuat the Fast Runner" - grab it. An incredible film.

Was he the orchid expert?

I'll second that on "Fast Runner," Msolga. (As far as I remember, that is the title here.) Also the rabbit fence film. There are some terrific suggestions in this thread!