Movies: Indigenous

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    Paralelo 10

    Paralelo 10 (2012)

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2025
    Soul of the Desert

    Soul of the Desert (2025)

    Soul of the Desert

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    A documentary on the road that tracks the journey by Georgina, an elderly transgender woman forced to cross the sandy peninsula Guajira, on foot, to obtain the thing she has desired for almost half a century: a document that will hand her the right t...

    Soul of the Desert
  • 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
  • 2009
    Kissed by Lightning

    Kissed by Lightning (2009)

    Kissed by Lightning

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    Mavis Dogblood is a Mohawk painter from Canada haunted by the tragic death of her husband, who was hit by lightning. She paints the stories he used to tell her, but she can’t come to grips with her loss. It is only after she drives to New York City f...

    Kissed by Lightning
  • 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
  • 2023
    NUKED

    NUKED (2023)

    NUKED

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    The US detonated 67 nuclear weapons over the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Cold War, the consequences of which still reverberate down four generations to today. "NUKED," is a timely new feature documentary focussing on the human vi...

    NUKED
  • 2015
    Le Dep

    Le Dep (2015)

    Le Dep

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    A a psychological drama about Lydia, a young Innu woman who works at her father’s convenience store in a small First Nations community in rural Quebec. One night, as she prepares to close up shop, a masked robber enters the store and holds her at gun...

    Le Dep
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2000
    Kikkik

    Kikkik (2000)

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    It is taking decades for Canada to come to terms with its history in the Arctic, and with its relationship to all its indigenous people. “Kikkik” is the story of government mistakes and neglect, of starvation, murder, freezing death, but, in the end,...

    Kikkik
  • 2007
    Tkaronto

    Tkaronto (2007)

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    Far from home and struggling to reconcile their Native identities with non-Native culture, Ray and Jolene negotiate a growing attraction as they're drawn together, in this reflective exploration of urban Aboriginal identity....

    Tkaronto
  • 2017
    Crazywise

    Crazywise (2017)

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    Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers Phil Borges and Kevin Tomlinson reveal a growing movement of professionals and survivors who are forging alternative treatments that focus on recovery and...

    Crazywise
  • 2019
    Lupita

    Lupita (2019)

    Lupita

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    In Mexico, a country where indigenous people are increasingly displaced and discriminated against, Lupita, a survivor of one of the worst massacres in the country’s history, finds her voice in a movement led by indigenous women. The film intimately f...

    Lupita
  • 2017
    500 Years

    500 Years (2017)

    500 Years

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    From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, the sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent history is told through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population, who now stand...

    500 Years
  • 2021
    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again

    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again (2021)

    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again

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    After marrying a settler, Mary Two-Axe Earley lost her legal status as a First Nations woman. Dedicating her life to activism, she campaigned to have First Nations women's rights restored and coordinated a movement that continues to this day. Kahnawa...

    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again