Movies: Indigenous

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Through the lens of sport, AFL legend Michael O'Loughlin shines a light on the history and experience of the Indigenous Australian people. Current AFL players, Michael Walters and Tarryn Thomas, join O'Loughlin to unpack racism, discrimination and th...

This beautiful short film captures the quiet dignity of a day in the life of a Northern trapper, without use of any dialogue....

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The ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest are home to giant trees and many secrets, which science is just beginning to understand. But these forests are at risk of disappearing. In British Columbia on First Nation territory, a small band of forest...

Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow tribe's turbulent past with modern-day accounts from Robert Yellow-tail, a 97-year-old Crow leader and a major reason for the tribe's survival. Povert...

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'Falas da Terra' sheds light on the plurality and the struggle of the indigenous people for the right to exist, in a historical rescue of valuing their cultures....

A man spreads rumours about a local elder. To be forgiven, he will be put to the test. Ka tatishtipatakanit (Ethereal) is a poetic lesson about respect....

A Chippewa prophecy foretells a time called the 7th Fire when lost traditions will be recovered. Native American filmmaker Sandra Sunrising Osawa examines how the Chippewa Indians of Northern Wisconsin have struggled to restore the centuries-old trad...

Documentary that accompanies the exchange between the mestizo urban artist Xadalu and the filmmaker of the Mbya Guarani ethnic group Ariel Kuaray Ortega. As part of his artistic quest, Xadalu goes on an immersion in Guarani territory, accompanied by ...

To gain his independence, a quick-tempered drug dealer must escape the shadow of his kingpin grandfather in a devout Native American community....

Filmmaker and educator Janine Windolph ventures from Saskatchewan to Quebec with her two teens and younger sister, tracing their familial origins to the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi. Against the scenic backdrop of these Traditional Lands, Elders of...

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A hunter on horseback accidentally discovers a portal to another world in this fantastical true Tsilhqot'in story....

Rachel, a young Mohawk woman, struggles with the aftermath of a terrible drunk-driving incident, forcing her to confront her trauma and mistakes in order to heal....

This short documentary revisits Mi’kmaq territory, where an iconic moment was captured in 2013—igniting into a symbol of Indigenous resistance and halting fracking exploration on unceded lands....

Poetic rescue of the memory of our Tupinambá ancestors. Considered extinct in the 16th century. The film has the testimony of Verá Miri, Chief / Pajé of the Guarani Mimbiá tribe....

A group of scientists are trying to stop a filaria epidemic spreading through a Tahitian population. They meet resistance in using western medicine to combat the disease from the medicine man and chief until the chief's son is infested with the paras...

Documentary about the life of three families living in the city of Boa Vista, north of Brazil. Some of them look for a more intense daily life going to parties, work and dealing with family trouble, others want to get back to the tribe. Personal cris...