Movies: Indigenous

Human bodies appear incomplete, divided and fractured by water and fabrics as a way to address the cementing, impoundment, and fragmenting of local streams and rivers. The body parts search for each other in an attempt to reconstitute as a collecti...

A touching portrait of the only woman who participates in the auto racing competitions of Kitigan Zibi, Anishinabe nation. Chalene McConini combines her role as a mother with her passion for speed....

Atikamekw-Nehirowisiw governance goes through women and harmony with the Nitaskinan, the territory. Kokom Cotit was inspired by this principle to manage his family territory....

Combining archival photos with new and found footage, this short film presents a personal, impressionistic rendering of what it's like growing up Mi'kmaq in Newfoundland, while living in a culture of denial. Vistas is a series of 13 short films on n...

Filmmaker Éli Laliberté explores Nitassinan, an Innu territory north of Sept-Îles. His camera follows Clément and Tekuanan. The first is a modern-day coureur des bois, the other returns to Nutshimit, his ancestral family territory....

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In the north of the state of Pará is the largest block of protected forests in the world; an area of ​​Amazon rainforest the size of the UK and home to a multitude of stories. Indigenous people, ranchers, squatters, quilombolas, businessmen and polit...

We are Nivi Savi, rain people, Mixtecos; a people that disperses like the clouds and every year returns to earth to continue to flourish the memory of their ancestors....

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern Manitoba from the 1950s. In this experimental film, the difference between homemade video and officia...

Based on the story The Idol of the Cyclades from the book End of the Game by Julio Cortazar....

Two Lawalapiti young men from Alto Xingu learn to build a canoe from the bark of the jatobá tree, a quick and simple technique that leaves the tree still rooted and alive, and that has ceased to be used and is only known by the oldest Lawalapiti men....

The history of Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax, and the modern day controversy surrounding his statue....

A young woman Indigenous is preparing to leave her community. This departure makes her reflect on her identity. As she moves towards adulthood, she feels as much a stranger in her village as in her next town....

The Maya Mam invite you to celebrate with them as we follow Jun Kanek who’s getting ready to participate in a traditional ceremony honouring his people....

Saw Eh and his two best friends live in a Karen village in Myanmar, where air strike warnings is a routine....

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