Indigenous Movies

Examines the 1879 court case of Standing Bear vs. Crook and the struggle for basic Native American rights.

Combining figurative abstraction with magic realism, this animated short depicts a world in which whales fall out of the sky and fish turn into...

"The Ninth Island" tells the story of Hawaii’s indigenous population and its struggles to stay connected to its ancestral home.

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

Filmmaker and educator Janine Windolph ventures from Saskatchewan to Quebec with her two teens and younger sister, tracing their familial origins to...

The Amazon plays a vital part in regulating the planet's temperature. Yet, last year, forest destruction in the Brazilian Amazon soared by 85 per...

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...

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

The thunder is warning, "The earth is sick." To cure it, David Kopenawa gathered in Roraima the Yanomami shamans from various regions. With the help...

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

A coming-of-age story that follows two teenagers in love doing the Pow wow circuit.

Bolivia's Climbing Cholitas - a group of indigenous women scaling the Andes Mountains, some of the highest peaks in the world. Shot in Bolivia for...

Resilience is dedicated to those whose lives have been fragmented by intergenerational trauma, but who wish to break the cycle.

Eight female storytellers, authors and poets performing at the Atalukan Storytelling and Legends Festival in Mashtueiatsh (Pointe-Bleue), Quebec.

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

In this beautiful portrait, Sekani, an Indigenous trans woman, speaks about surviving the streets of Vancouver, about loss, about where she comes...

Beatnik contemporary revival in the voice of a francophone queer métis gives voice to thoughts, desires, and struggles of a queer indigenous...

Profile of the Crow Indian Mission in Lodge Grass, Montana.