Indigenous Movies

In the mountainous country near Lillooet, British Columbia, eleven-year-old Kevin Alec of the Fountain Indian Reserve learns to make fishnets with...

The big bad cats are the villains/Indians, and the little mice are the settlers going west in their little covered wagons, and the Indians are on a...

A father tries to save the soul of his daughter, lost in darkness.

Eight female storytellers, authors and poets performing at the Atalukan Storytelling and Legends Festival in Mashtueiatsh (Pointe-Bleue), Quebec.

This documentary digs into the stories of Indigenous women and families to reclaim their Indian Status through their fight for the elimination of...

Sammy Gadbois uses candid moments to question his purpose on earth.

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...

This documentary short is a cinematic recording of Tales from a Prairie Drifter, a stage comedy about the North-West Resistance during the opening of...

Lost short film about the encounter of Juan Diego with the Virgin of Guadalupe.

A healing and poetic essay on our intergenerational relationship with water.

A love story set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the opioid epidemic, Echo and Wild are two urban Indigenous land defenders. On the...

One of the Karrabing's most stirring and direct films, Day in the Life (also screening as part of the Frameworks programme) depicts obstacles...

Filmmaker Éli Laliberté explores Nitassinan, an Innu territory north of Sept-Îles. His camera follows Clément and...

“Nuuhkuum uumichiwaapim” (« My Grandmother’s Tipi ») is an exploration of the sensorial and textural experience of a...

At the end of the world, only Indigenous people can survive the toxic landscape so the white fellas steal ‘mud children’ to experiment on...

Combining archival photos with new and found footage, this short film presents a personal, impressionistic rendering of what it's like growing up...

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