Indigenous Movies

  • 1999
    Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer

    Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer

    Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer

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    As the name of this short film promises, a filmmaker (Merata Mita), a cook (Anne Thorp) and a singer (Moana Maniapoto) sit down for an interview at...

    Pākiri: The Filmmaker, the Cook & the Singer
  • 2016
    Guachimontones, los límites del hombre y la naturaleza.

    Guachimontones, los límites del hombre y la naturaleza.

    Guachimontones, los límites del hombre y la naturaleza.

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    Guachimontones, los límites del hombre y la naturaleza.
  • 1910
    The Torture of Cuauhtémoc

    The Torture of Cuauhtémoc

    The Torture of Cuauhtémoc

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    Lost short film about the death of the last Aztec Emperor.

    The Torture of Cuauhtémoc
  • 1946
    Winning the West

    Winning the West

    Winning the West

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    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...

    Winning the West
  • 2022
    Milikᵘ tshishutshelimunuau

    Milikᵘ tshishutshelimunuau

    Milikᵘ tshishutshelimunuau

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    The journey of a young candidate running in the Pessamit community band council elections.

    Milikᵘ tshishutshelimunuau
  • 2023
    The Voice of Water

    The Voice of Water

    The Voice of Water

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

    The Voice of Water
  • 2019
    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within

    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within

    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within

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    For four years, the Jicarilla Apache Nation's Johnson O'Malley program, led by Lynn Roanhorse, and Holt Hamilton Films have joined forces to...

    Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within
  • 2020
    Somebody's Daughter

    Somebody's Daughter

    Somebody's Daughter

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    Somebody’s Daughter focuses on higher-profile MMIW cases, some of which were raised during the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in December...

    Somebody's Daughter
  • 1981
    Witchers and healers

    Witchers and healers

    Witchers and healers

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    Shot in Tuxtlas, Veracruz, this documentary exposes the ideological conceptions of witches, healers and patients, with respect to traditional...

    Witchers and healers
  • 2021
    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    02021HD

    What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the enactment of the Indian Child...

    Daughter of a Lost Bird
  • 1970
    Voices That Heal

    Voices That Heal

    Voices That Heal

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    Herlinda Augustin is a Shipibo healer who lives with her family in Peruvian Amazonia. Will she and other healers be able to maintain their ancient...

    Voices That Heal
  • 2024
    Ikaartuit

    Ikaartuit

    Ikaartuit

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    During the summer of 2022, eight teenagers and young adults from Kuujjuaq, Kangiqsualujjuaq and Kangirsuk took part in a two-week kayaking adventure.

    Ikaartuit
  • 2024
    Anishinaabemowin

    Anishinaabemowin

    Anishinaabemowin

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

    Anishinaabemowin
  • 2022
    Aoskway, sur les traces de l’orignal

    Aoskway, sur les traces de l’orignal

    Aoskway, sur les traces de l’orignal

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    Aoskway, sur les traces de l’orignal
  • 2022
    Where do I Belong

    Where do I Belong

    Where do I Belong

    02022HD

    In a continuation of her first film We Are Not Speaking the Same Language, Danika explains what it feels like to be displaced Indigenous urban.

    Where do I Belong
  • 2021
    Before They Fall

    Before They Fall

    Before They Fall

    02021HD

    Conservation groups, First Nations, and scientists come together in this timely short film, as a decades-long battle to protect endangered old-growth...

    Before They Fall
  • 2019
    Ethereal

    Ethereal

    Ethereal

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    A man spreads rumours about a local elder. To be forgiven, he will be put to the test. Ka tatishtipatakanit (Ethereal) is a poetic lesson about...

    Ethereal
  • 2013
    O Homem que Matou Deus

    O Homem que Matou Deus

    O Homem que Matou Deus

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    O Homem que Matou Deus
  • 2014
    Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!

    Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!

    Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!

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    October 2013 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police descended on a peaceful anti-fracking protest led by the Mi'kmaq of Elsipogtog and their allies. In...

    Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!
  • 2020
    The Song of the Butterflies

    The Song of the Butterflies

    The Song of the Butterflies

    02020HD

    Rember Yahuarcani is an indigenous artist from the Uitoto Nation who lives in Lima, Peru. From his clan, the White Heron, only two families remain in...

    The Song of the Butterflies