Indigenous Community Movies
- 2024

Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants02024HD
A botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to remember the genocidal colonization it suffered...
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- 2021

Portraits from a Fire
Portraits from a Fire62021HD
An Indigenous teenage boy fights through distorting realities as a family secret unravels.
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- 1970

Healing the nation
Healing the nation01970HD
Healing the Nation follows community members of the Toronto-based Aboriginal Healing Program as they rediscover their culture to heal from unresolved...
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- 2024

Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo
Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo02024HD
A cinematic wonder & incredible opportunity to learn about Indigenous ways of knowing. A group of puppeteers are transformed by their experience of...
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- 2017

The Road Forward
The Road Forward92017HD
The Road Forward is an electrifying musical documentary that connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of...
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- 2022

KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials
KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials02022HD
Death is an intimate experience, and how we lay our loved ones to rest, varies between cultures. KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials sheds light on the...
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- 2018

Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência
Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência02018HD
The story of Ayahuasca, from its emergence in the Amazonian Forest, to its popularity with the Santo Daime religion, and on to its arrival in urban...
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- 2012

No Other Choice
No Other Choice02012HD
An undercover documentary film produced and directed by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the struggle of the indigenous Sahrawi people of...
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- 1963

Attiuk
Attiuk01963HD
The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are seen but not heard in this richly detailed...
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- 1999

My Village in Nunavik
My Village in Nunavik01999HD
Shot during three seasons, Kenuajuak's documentary tenderly portrays village life and the elements that forge the character of his people: their...
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- 2007

Woven Songs of the Amazon
Woven Songs of the Amazon72007HD
The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called...
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- 2013

I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again
I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again92013HD
A documentary that tells the story of five American Indian artists, the Urban Indian 5 (UI5), and their unique partnership.
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- 2007

Sacha Runa Yachay
Sacha Runa Yachay02007HD
The elders of the Kichwa community of Sarayaku preserve the history of their land for the youngest. They save the knowledge of their traditions...
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- 2024

Fancy Dance
Fancy Dance6.6562024HD
Following her sister's disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what's left of their family intact, Jax and Roki...
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- 2022

This Is Not a Ceremony
This Is Not a Ceremony02022HD
This cinematic VR experience offers insights into the struggles and conflicts of growing up an Indigenous man.
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- 2022

Helena of Sarayaku
Helena of Sarayaku22022HD
Helena is 17 years old and studies in Finland. Her father, a Swede, and her mother, indigenous Kichwa of Sarayaku, live at the heart of the Amazon in...
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- 2023

Nostalgia for the Lake
Nostalgia for the Lake62023HD
A vision from Limbo, where the canoeist of the eternal lake floats in his boat, between sleep and wakefulness. When he sleeps, he dreams of the...
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- 2008

Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back
Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back02008HD
For over 50 years, the Kahnawake Mohawks, of Quebec, Canada occupied a 10 square block area in the North Gowanus section of Brooklyn, which became...
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- 2023

Covenant of the Salmon People
Covenant of the Salmon People102023HD
Covenant of the Salmon People is a documentary portrait of the Nez Perce Tribe’s ancient covenant with salmon. The film follows their efforts...
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- 2018

The Book of the Sea
The Book of the Sea02018HD
In the frigid waters off of Russia’s Bering Strait, Inuit and Chukchi hunters today still seek out the giant sea mammals that have provided...
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