Movies: Indigenous

  • 2021
    maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

    maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (2021)

    maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

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    An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their own relationships to the spirit world and a place in between life and death....

    maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
  • 1985
    Broken Rainbow

    Broken Rainbow (1985)

    Broken Rainbow

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    Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona....

    Broken Rainbow
  • 2018
    Dawnland

    Dawnland (2018)

    Dawnland

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    They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, depriving them of their culture and erasing their identities. Can reconciliation help heal the scars from childhoods lost? "Dawnland" is the untold story of ...

    Dawnland
  • 2017
    Keep Talking

    Keep Talking (2017)

    Keep Talking

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    Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture while confronting their personal demons. With just 41 fluent Native speakers remaining, mostly Elders, some estimate their langua...

    Keep Talking
  • 2021
    Documentário Brasil Tupinambá

    Documentário Brasil Tupinambá (2021)

    Documentário Brasil Tupinambá

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    Documentário Brasil Tupinambá
  • 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
  • 1991
    Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

    Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier (1991)

    Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

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    An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977, with commentary from those involved, including Peltier himself....

    Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
  • 2015
    Mother Tongue

    Mother Tongue (2015)

    Mother Tongue

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    "Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into Maya-Ixil—5.5% of whom were killed during the armed conflict in the 1980s. Told from the perspective of Matilde Terraza...

    Mother Tongue
  • 2022
    The Wind & the Reckoning

    The Wind & the Reckoning (2022)

    The Wind & the Reckoning

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    As an outbreak of leprosy engulfs 19th-century colonial Hawai'i, a small group of infected Native Hawaiians resist government-mandated exile, taking a courageous stand against the provisional government. Inspired by real-life events....

    The Wind & the Reckoning
  • 2021
    Portraits from a Fire

    Portraits from a Fire (2021)

    Portraits from a Fire

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    An Indigenous teenage boy fights through distorting realities as a family secret unravels....

    Portraits from a Fire
  • 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
    Edge of the Knife

    Edge of the Knife (2018)

    Edge of the Knife

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    Island of Haida Gwaii, northern Canada, 19th century. During a fishing gathering, Adiits'ii commits an unfortunate act. Tormented, he runs away to the wilderness as his mind embraces madness....

    Edge of the Knife
  • 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
  • 2018
    Positions

    Positions (2018)

    Positions

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    An unapologetic and realist exploration of sexual desire, the quest for financial stability, and the pursuit of agency over one's own body....

    Positions
  • 1968
    The Ballad of Crowfoot

    The Ballad of Crowfoot (1968)

    The Ballad of Crowfoot

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    Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canada’s first music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew, the first all-Indigenous production u...

    The Ballad of Crowfoot
  • 2016
    Promised Land

    Promised Land (2016)

    Promised Land

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    Promised Land is a social justice documentary that follows two tribes in the Pacific Northwest: the Duwamish and the Chinook, as they fight for the restoration of treaty rights they've long been denied. In following their story, the film examines a l...

    Promised Land
  • 2022
    Here Ends the World We've Known

    Here Ends the World We've Known (2022)

    Here Ends the World We've Known

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    1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he may lose his freedom and his life. She is ready to sacrifice him to save her own skin. But their wounds bring...

    Here Ends the World We've Known
  • 2021
    L'Inhumain

    L'Inhumain (2021)

    L'Inhumain

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    Mathieu is a brilliant neurosurgeon whose perfect life is falling apart. Impending divorce, job loss, substance abuse, and a mid-life crisis are all factors that can cause him to go off the rails. In addition, the sudden death of his father forces hi...

    L'Inhumain
  • 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
  • 2023
    Covenant of the Salmon People

    Covenant of the Salmon People (2023)

    Covenant of the Salmon People

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    Covenant of the Salmon People is a documentary portrait of the Nez Perce Tribe’s ancient covenant with salmon. The film follows their efforts to uphold this ancient relationship as dams and climate impacts threaten one of the cornerstones of their cu...

    Covenant of the Salmon People