First Nations Movies

This documentary profiles the tiny Ojibway community of Hollow Water on the shores of Lake Winnipeg as they deal with an epidemic of sexual abuse in...

A Seminole boy spending the summer alone in the Everglades as a rite of passage helps a lost panther cub survive, but the village does not welcome...

A Seminole Indian captures a falcon on its yearly migration, but it yearns to be free.

The documentary proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec – all threatened with...

A journey by canoe into the city creates a dynamic interconnection between natural and urban spaces, in this evocative short set to a hypnotizing...

Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure...

This documentary examines the battle strategies of citizens, scientists, loggers, environmentalists and First Nations people who are fighting over...

The Inuit folktale of an old woman and the orphaned polar bear cub she took in as her own child.

The story of a young Mi'kmaq girl whose name means "the light from the dawn."

In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en...

Banduk discovers that Mr Kool is smuggling birds out of Australia.

Transhuman beings waking up at dusk, reappearing as something else to prepare for the night

For almost a century, the Coast Salish knitters of southern Vancouver Island have produced Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. These distinctive...

When Jimmy leaves his reservation for the lures of city life, he finds himself confronted with a future he could never have imagined.

Daniel and his friends have troubles with Indians on their way to Kentucky.

Filmmaker/activist Melaw Nakehk’o has spent the pandemic with her family at a remote land camp in the Northwest Territories, “getting...

Three decades after the shuttering of the mining town of Schefferville, the Innu people, who moved in after the non-natives abandoned the town, are...

Three Kiowa boys attempt to escape a government boarding school in 1891, Oklahoma.

In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal documents the events of the final journey of the...