Indigenous Peoples Movies

A documentary portrait of life in the Cook Islands, focusing on Rarotonga and neighboring islands. The film records traditional fishing, weaving,...

This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the performance of a traditional dance with the art of...

With his ultra-conservative policies, US President Donald Trump is disrupting the global order as well as US institutions and society. Filmed less...

In 1976, a Mi'gMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are...

A vaporwave psychological thriller about landmen traveling to North Dakota to obtain rights to undeveloped land, owned by a man who hates the oil...

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she...

An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film weaves together video shot by teens and by the...

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...

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives...

Sami dance students Birit and Katja Haarla dance through the villages and lost woods of Sápmi all the way to where the important decisions are...

In May 2003, around 30 women and children were murdered in the Ecuadorian jungle. The victims belonged to the Taromenani clan, an uncontacted...

On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western...

A British widower in the 1880s Pacific Northwest hires a Native American governess, educated in a Christian mission school, to teach his two...

An Irish refugee child alone in New York of 1847. A Choctaw son far from the warmth of his family. When their paths align, Mara and Tushka will...

The world knows the image of the good Canadian. But what if there was a dark secret behind a national identity? THE GOOD CANADIAN exposes the truth...

In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the...

Ningwasum follows two time travellers Miksam and Mingsoma, played by Subin Limbu and Shanta Nepali respectively, in the Himalayas weaving indigenous...

Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest...

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and...

A Mohawk woman is hired as a social media influencer but gets caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game, as she's forced to go to war to preserve her...