Indigenous Movies

A deep dive into the history of the Canadian Government and the Department of National Defence leasing First Nations reserves as practice bombing...

In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate...

Covenant of the Salmon People is a documentary portrait of the Nez Perce Tribe’s ancient covenant with salmon. The film follows their efforts...

Filmmaker Mary Galloway's feature documentary looks at the origins and continued impact of the famed Cowichan sweater.

At the end of the world, only Indigenous people can survive the toxic landscape so the white fellas steal ‘mud children’ to experiment on...

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

Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.

The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put...

Sammy Gadbois uses candid moments to question his purpose on earth.

Combining archival photos with new and found footage, this short film presents a personal, impressionistic rendering of what it's like growing up...

This short documentary follows Gabe Etchinelle as builds a mooseskin boat as a tribute to an earlier way of life, where the Shotah Dene people would...

The Oka Legacy is a POV documentary that explores how the Oka Crisis has influenced Indigenous identity in Canada. In the summer of 1990, all eyes...

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

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in northern Japan, portraying people from tightly knit...

The third and final part of a trilogy based on Arctic creation myths. The film is a multifaceted tissue weave of myths and traditions reflected in...

A father tries to save the soul of his daughter, lost in darkness.

“Nuuhkuum uumichiwaapim” (« My Grandmother’s Tipi ») is an exploration of the sensorial and textural experience of a...

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