Indigenous Movies

  • 2019
    Spirit of the Reindeer

    Spirit of the Reindeer

    Spirit of the Reindeer

    02019HD

    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...

    Spirit of the Reindeer
  • 2017
    Angels Gather Here

    Angels Gather Here

    Angels Gather Here

    02017HD

    Angels Gather Here’ follows Jacki Trapman’s journey back to her hometown of Brewarrina to celebrate her parents, Bill and Barbara’s...

    Angels Gather Here
  • 2020
    The Fourfold

    The Fourfold

    The Fourfold

    52020HD

    Based on the shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, this is a testament to the need to reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and...

    The Fourfold
  • 2020
    Meet Louisa

    Meet Louisa

    Meet Louisa

    02020HD

    Arvitarniit is a series of short videos presenting the journeys of inspiring post-secondary students from Nunavik. In this clip, we invite you to...

    Meet Louisa
  • 2019
    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country

    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country

    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country

    82019HD

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

    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country
  • 2012
    Femmes autochtones disparues et assassinées

    Femmes autochtones disparues et assassinées

    Femmes autochtones disparues et assassinées

    02012HD

    The two-year National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, established by Ottawa, heard from 1,484 survivors of violence and...

    Femmes autochtones disparues et assassinées
  • 2023
    Soleil de nuit

    Soleil de nuit

    Soleil de nuit

    72023HD

    During a training exercise in an abandoned open-pit mine, a crew of Canadian astronauts are interrupted by an Atikamekw elder, who asks them to...

    Soleil de nuit
  • 2015
    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

    02015HD

    A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as...

    Taking Alcatraz
  • 2021
    When Shadows Dance at Night

    When Shadows Dance at Night

    When Shadows Dance at Night

    02021HD

    Following her brother's death, Georgia, a young college student, returns home to her reservation only to find she's become the prey of a...

    When Shadows Dance at Night
  • 2016
    Batailles

    Batailles

    Batailles

    02016HD

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

    Batailles
  • 2015
    The Oka Legacy

    The Oka Legacy

    The Oka Legacy

    02015HD

    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...

    The Oka Legacy
  • 2020
    Los Andes Symphony Orchestra

    Los Andes Symphony Orchestra

    Los Andes Symphony Orchestra

    02020HD

    The North of Cauca is the region of Colombia most affected by the internal armed conflict since 1940. There is an orchestra of ancestral music...

    Los Andes Symphony Orchestra
  • 2010
    Cry Rock

    Cry Rock

    Cry Rock

    02010HD

    In the Bella Coola Valley, a haunting legend endures through generations as a filmmaker reckons with whether the stories of her ancestors can survive...

    Cry Rock
  • 2003
    Islet

    Islet

    Islet

    102003HD

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

    Islet
  • 2021
    Ainu Neno An Ainu

    Ainu Neno An Ainu

    Ainu Neno An Ainu

    02021HD

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

    Ainu Neno An Ainu
  • 2002
    Naskapi (nation naskapie)

    Naskapi (nation naskapie)

    Naskapi (nation naskapie)

    02002HD

    Naskapi (nation naskapie)
  • 2024
    Ikaartuit

    Ikaartuit

    Ikaartuit

    02024HD

    During the summer of 2022, eight teenagers and young adults from Kuujjuaq, Kangiqsualujjuaq and Kangirsuk took part in a two-week kayaking adventure.

    Ikaartuit
  • 2011
    The Chocolate Farmer

    The Chocolate Farmer

    The Chocolate Farmer

    72011HD

    For ancient Mayans, cocoa was as good as gold. For subsistence farmer Eladio Pop, his cocoa crops are the only riches he has to support his wife and...

    The Chocolate Farmer
  • 2018
    Biidaaban: First Light

    Biidaaban: First Light

    Biidaaban: First Light

    02018HD

    Toronto’s town square is flooded. The city’s infrastructure has merged with local flora. In this radically different future, people have...

    Biidaaban: First Light
  • 1946
    Winning the West

    Winning the West

    Winning the West

    91946HD

    The big bad cats are the villains/Indians, and the little mice are the settlers going west in their little covered wagons, and the Indians are on a...

    Winning the West