Movies: Indigenous

  • 2023
    Double M Country

    Double M Country (2023)

    Double M Country

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    Carrie Davis was part of the child removal system near the end of the Sixties Scoop. With guidance from her uncle Emmett Sack and the community, Carrie reconnects to their land, language, and culture....

    Double M Country
  • 2024
    In This Moment

    In This Moment (2024)

    In This Moment

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    “In This Moment” follows Love, a trans woman navigating the complexities of polyamory and self-discovery in a world that often challenges her right to exist. As she unravels what it means to be truly seen and cherished, she confronts the ways love ma...

    In This Moment
  • 2005
    Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege

    Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2005)

    Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege

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    Although the mountain volcano Mauna Kea last erupted around 4,000 years ago, it is still hot today, the center of a burning controversy over whether its summit should be used for astronomical observatories or preserved as a cultural landscape sacred ...

    Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege
  • 2012
    Mayan Renaissance

    Mayan Renaissance (2012)

    Mayan Renaissance

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    Mayan Renaissance is a feature length film which documents the glory of the ancient Maya civilization, the Spanish conquest in 1519, 500 years of oppression, and the courageous fight of the Maya to reclaim their voice and determine their own future, ...

    Mayan Renaissance
  • 2022
    Still We Rise

    Still We Rise (2022)

    Still We Rise

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    50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the world. Taking a fresh lens this is a bold dive into a year of protest and revolutionary change for First Nations people....

    Still We Rise
  • 2024
    Red Fever

    Red Fever (2024)

    Red Fever

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    Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound -- yet hidden -- Indigenous influence on Western culture and identity. The film follows Cree co-director Neil Diamond as he asks, “Why do they love us so much?!” and sets ou...

    Red Fever
  • 2012
    Paralelo 10

    Paralelo 10 (2012)

    Paralelo 10

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    It portrays a pioneering and risky work carried out in a small Xinane base, by FUNAI, near Parallel 10º South, west of Acre, on the border with Peru. In simple installations, in the middle of the jungle, the sertanista José Carlos Meirelles carries o...

    Paralelo 10
  • 2022
    Broken Angel

    Broken Angel (2022)

    Broken Angel

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    Angel, a once vibrant beautiful Cree woman, becomes weary and spiritless after enduring viscous spiritual, physical, and emotional abuse from her partner Earl....

    Broken Angel
  • 1987
    Foster Child

    Foster Child (1987)

    Foster Child

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    Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised b...

    Foster Child
  • 2018
    Piripkura

    Piripkura (2018)

    Piripkura

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    The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation. Living deep in the rainforest, Pakyî and Tamand...

    Piripkura
  • 1991
    Women in the Shadows

    Women in the Shadows (1991)

    Women in the Shadows

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    Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces the filmmaker's quest for her Native foremothers in spite of the reluctance to speak about Native roots on the part of her relatives. The film articul...

    Women in the Shadows
  • 2020
    Invasion

    Invasion (2020)

    Invasion

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    In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation are standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence ag...

    Invasion
  • 2011
    The Chocolate Farmer

    The Chocolate Farmer (2011)

    The Chocolate Farmer

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    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 15 children. As he wields his machete with ease, slicing a path to his cocoa trees, the small jungle ...

    The Chocolate Farmer
  • 1978
    New World

    New World (1978)

    New World

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    Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religio...

    New World
  • 1986
    Ikwe

    Ikwe (1986)

    Ikwe

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    A young Ojibwa girl from 1770 marries a Scottish fur trader and leaves home for the shores of Georgian Bay. Although the union is beneficial for her tribe, it results in hardship and isolation for Ikwe. Values and customs clash until, finally, the ev...

    Ikwe
  • 2008
    Club Native

    Club Native (2008)

    Club Native

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    With moving stories from a range of characters from her Kahnawake Reserve, Mohawk filmmaker, Tracey Deer, reveals the divisive legacy of more than a hundred years of discriminatory and sexist government policy to expose the lingering "blood quantum" ...

    Club Native
  • 2019
    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country

    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country (2019)

    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country

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    When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their musical traditions with many other cultures, creating a sound that was unique to the "Copper Country."...

    Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country
  • 2014
    Chasing the Light

    Chasing the Light (2014)

    Chasing the Light

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    Riggs, a down-on-his-luck screenwriter, struggles to finish a script. But failed suicide attempts, unstable friends, drug deals, and memories of his ex-girlfriend interfere....

    Chasing the Light
  • 2012
    No Place is Far Away

    No Place is Far Away (2012)

    No Place is Far Away

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    The story of a town at the mercy of a landscape in transformation; standing on the brink of an encroaching reality, one in which the age-old fears of the inhabitants are being reproduced. A hamlet has survived, perched in a remote location where its ...

    No Place is Far Away
  • 2023
    We Will Speak

    We Will Speak (2023)

    We Will Speak

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    The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas have forced the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes to declare a State of Emergency for the language in 2...

    We Will Speak