Indigenous Movies

As night falls, Karen decides to leave the party where a friend is about to lose herself. A metaphor for life, this battlefield.

Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a relaxed, narration-free depiction of an Inuk seal hunt. Having...

This animated short, inspired by the Mi'kmaq legend "The Stone Canoe" explores Indigenous humour. We follow Little Thunder as he reluctantly leaves...

A love story set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the opioid epidemic, Echo and Wild are two urban Indigenous land defenders. On the...

This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a...

Flora Bear’s youngest granddaughter searches for truth and answers about her Indigenous grandmother’s life.

The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.

Shot in Tuxtlas, Veracruz, this documentary exposes the ideological conceptions of witches, healers and patients, with respect to traditional...

Oral legend of the Amazonian nationality Secoya del Ecuador. Tells the story of Ñañe (the moon) and how it created the world.

A massive family association gathers hundreds of people from across the country to celebrate their common ancestor: An Amishman named Jacob...

This documentary short is a cinematic recording of Tales from a Prairie Drifter, a stage comedy about the North-West Resistance during the opening of...

In an indigenous village a murder occurs, and young man is sentenced to death for it. However his father, the real culprit, takes the responsibility.

When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their...

A Chippewa prophecy foretells a time called the 7th Fire when lost traditions will be recovered. Native American filmmaker Sandra Sunrising Osawa...

Filmmaker Éli Laliberté explores Nitassinan, an Innu territory north of Sept-Îles. His camera follows Clément and...

Uncover the rugged history, desert wildlife, and hidden secrets of the California desert. This documentary dives deep into the rich human stories of...

Thea is an 8-year-old Ojibwe girl who is in the process of learning how to speak her traditional language from her mother.