Indigenous Movies

Using the camera as a weapon to defend their ancestral land in Brazil, three women of the Daje Kapap Eypi audiovisual collective lovingly record...

A film about the gold panning adventures of Hans Söderström, an indigenous Swede. The story stretches from Scandinavia to Africa, via Asia...

This beautiful short film captures the quiet dignity of a day in the life of a Northern trapper, without use of any dialogue.

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...

To save her dying mother, a Mexican-Navajo mechanic bands together with an outlaw cowgirl to confront a corrupt landowner.

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal...

At Archer’s Aunty Gladys’ funeral, he hears a tap on the window — it’s a bear named Jesus, who has come for Archer’s...

They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, depriving them of their culture and erasing their...

Two Aboriginal brothers are put in a hard situation by a miner who kills a man for gold. Based on real events.

A sensitive and intimate portrait of Ivanna, a nomadic reindeer herder in the Russian Arctic and mother of five small kids. Ivanna is forced to...

A First Nations man takes a famous actor back to the reserve to help him cope with his drug addiction.

Based on the shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, this is a testament to the need to reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and...

For millennia, Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to...

To gain his independence, a quick-tempered drug dealer must escape the shadow of his kingpin grandfather in a devout Native American community.

Two indigenous tribes invoke the god of love, Rudá, to come and celebrate the rite of love. They believe that this god lives in the clouds and...

Mateo, a Metis teenager, is losing his bearings following the suicide of his father. In denial and anger, he will do anything to deny his native...

In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while...

Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous...

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....