Indigenous Movies

This film is an initiatory journey among the Fangs of Gabon and the Shipibos of Peru. With the sound of traditional instruments like the mogongo (arc...

Waters’ LIFT project, ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek), is the fourth of a quartet of films, and...

In 1999, Innu community members who, 40 years previously, had been forcibly relocated from their remote northern region of Labrador to established...

In the Bella Coola Valley, a haunting legend endures through generations as a filmmaker reckons with whether the stories of her ancestors can survive...

Documentary about the life of three families living in the city of Boa Vista, north of Brazil. Some of them look for a more intense daily life going...

SapiKuna is a documentary exploring the ancestral knowledge of the Kichwa cultures in the Ecuadorian highlands. Through voices, rituals, and...

The hunters are the Innu people and the bombers are the air forces of several NATO countries, which conduct low-level flights over the Innu's hunting...

From totem poles to language revitalization and traditional agriculture, host Chris Eyre (Cheyenne Arapaho) discovers the resilience of the Coast...

This short documentary depicts the formation in 1959 of the first successful co-operative in an Inuit community in Northern Québec. The film...

Thea is an 8-year-old Ojibwe girl who is in the process of learning how to speak her traditional language from her mother.

Two young men spend an ordinary weekend together as Jehovah's Witnesses in the historic industry town of Trail, British Columbia. They eat junk food,...

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...

A massive family association gathers hundreds of people from across the country to celebrate their common ancestor: An Amishman named Jacob...

Following young Anders and his father, Dr. Grant Bruno, of the Samson Cree Nation, this documentary gives viewers unique access to the world of an...