Indigenous Movies

  • 2009
    Rio Uruçumirim

    Rio Uruçumirim

    Rio Uruçumirim

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    Rescue bridge of the Tupinambá de Uruçumirim village, headquarters of the Tamoia Confederation until 1567, when it was destroyed in a...

    Rio Uruçumirim
  • 2017
    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

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    The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and...

    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
  • 2011
    Throat Song

    Throat Song

    Throat Song

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    In a small town in the Canadian Arctic, Ippik, a young Inuit woman, suffers in an abusive relationship. She starts to heal when she connects with...

    Throat Song
  • 2011
    Eternal Ashes

    Eternal Ashes

    Eternal Ashes

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    ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united...

    Eternal Ashes
  • 2021
    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

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    What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the enactment of the Indian Child...

    Daughter of a Lost Bird
  • 1985
    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

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    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...

    Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
  • 2014
    Maximón: Devil or Saint

    Maximón: Devil or Saint

    Maximón: Devil or Saint

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    MAXIMÓN - Devil or Saint is a documentary about the controversial Maya deity, also known as San Simon or the drinking and smoking saint of...

    Maximón: Devil or Saint
  • 1975
    Cold Journey

    Cold Journey

    Cold Journey

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    In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him...

    Cold Journey
  • 1986
    Mistress Madeleine

    Mistress Madeleine

    Mistress Madeleine

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    Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the...

    Mistress Madeleine
  • 2024
    Our Maternal Home

    Our Maternal Home

    Our Maternal Home

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

    Our Maternal Home
  • 2015
    The Seventh Fire

    The Seventh Fire

    The Seventh Fire

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    When gang leader Rob Brown is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved...

    The Seventh Fire
  • 1932
    Igloo

    Igloo

    Igloo

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    Documentary detailing the hardships of life among Alaskan Natives.

    Igloo
  • 2016
    Living with Giants

    Living with Giants

    Living with Giants

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    Living with Giants delves into the imaginative world of Paulusie Kasudluak, a young Inuk facing responsibilities as he transitions into adulthood....

    Living with Giants
  • 2019
    Xadalu e o Jaguaretê

    Xadalu e o Jaguaretê

    Xadalu e o Jaguaretê

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    Documentary that accompanies the exchange between the mestizo urban artist Xadalu and the filmmaker of the Mbya Guarani ethnic group Ariel Kuaray...

    Xadalu e o Jaguaretê
  • 2022
    Powerlands

    Powerlands

    Powerlands

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    A young Navajo filmmaker investigates displacement of Indigenous people and devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that...

    Powerlands
  • 2024
    Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardians of the Rainforest

    Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardians of the Rainforest

    Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardians of the Rainforest

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    With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality....

    Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardians of the Rainforest
  • 2021
    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    02021HD

    For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones...

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy
  • 2018
    Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People

    Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People

    Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People

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    Oklahoma is home to thirty-nine federally recognized tribes. Nowhere in North America will you find such diversity among Native Peoples, and nowhere...

    Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People
  • 1983
    Our Land, Our Truth

    Our Land, Our Truth

    Our Land, Our Truth

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    Made in collaboration with the Inuit Tungavingat Nunamini, this film focuses on those dissident members of the Inuit community who rejected the...

    Our Land, Our Truth
  • 2025
    This Land

    This Land

    This Land

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    In 1974 a group of Mohawk Indians occupied a defunct girls camp in New York's Adirondack mountains and established a community they called Ganienkeh....

    This Land