Movies: Indigenous community

  • 2017
    Tawai: A Voice from the Forest

    Tawai: A Voice from the Forest (2017)

    Tawai: A Voice from the Forest

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    Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand humanity's changing relationship with the world around us....

    Tawai: A Voice from the Forest
  • 2023
    Next Goal Wins

    Next Goal Wins (2023)

    Next Goal Wins

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    Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners....

    Next Goal Wins
  • 2024
    Fancy Dance

    Fancy Dance (2024)

    Fancy Dance

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    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 defy the law and hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow in Oklahoma City....

    Fancy Dance
  • 2015
    Defenders of Life

    Defenders of Life (2015)

    Defenders of Life

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    In the hills of Costa Rica, Doña Carmen struggles to pass on her tribe's traditional ways of life. She must soon marry off her only granddaughter, and 70-year-old shaman Don Claudio lays his claim to the girl, who is only 12 and already impregnated b...

    Defenders of Life
  • 2022
    For Love

    For Love (2022)

    For Love

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    In this searing documentary, Indigenous people share heartbreaking stories that reveal the injustices inflicted by the Canadian child welfare system....

    For Love
  • 2023
    Bancoco

    Bancoco (2023)

    Bancoco

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    A New Yorker journeys to the jungle in the Darien Gap of Panama to reconnect with an indigenous tribe he met and photographed 20 years ago. Their reunion highlights the profound power of photos and the human connection that transcends cultural barrie...

    Bancoco
  • 2005
    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage (2005)

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

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    In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance, song, festive clothing, and drink—including the sacred tea ayahuasca....

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
  • 2011
    Throat Song

    Throat Song (2011)

    Throat Song

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    In a small town in the Canadian Arctic, Ippik, a young Inuit woman, suffers in an abusive relationship. She starts to heal when she connects with other victims of violence and finds her voice....

    Throat Song
  • 1994
    Innu

    Innu (1994)

    Innu

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    Innu
  • 2024
    Toroboro: The Name of the Plants

    Toroboro: The Name of the Plants (2024)

    Toroboro: The Name of the Plants

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    A botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to remember the genocidal colonization it suffered in the 1960s. Meanwhile, a group of ecologists from the capital tries to stop oil exploitation in the ...

    Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
  • 2024
    Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

    Revealed: How to Poison a Planet (2024)

    Revealed: How to Poison a Planet

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    A searing examination of the contamination that sparked an international catastrophe and the decades’ long battle with some of the world’s largest chemical companies for justice and compensation....

    Revealed: How to Poison a Planet
  • 2007
    Woven Songs of the Amazon

    Woven Songs of the Amazon (2007)

    Woven Songs of the Amazon

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    The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called kené. These patterns also have corresponding songs, called icaros, which are integral to the Shipibo way of li...

    Woven Songs of the Amazon
  • 2017
    The Road Forward

    The Road Forward (2017)

    The Road Forward

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    The Road Forward is an electrifying musical documentary that connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s—with the powerful momentum of First Nations activism today. Interviews and musi...

    The Road Forward
  • 2022
    Forests

    Forests (2022)

    Forests

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    In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while Innu voices tell us the story of this territory, this flooded forest. Muffled percussive sounds gradual...

    Forests
  • 1956
    Remote Love

    Remote Love (1956)

    Remote Love

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    Yimin, the son of a carriage driver of Xinjiang ethnicity, is in love with Malihan. Malihan's father despises Yimin for his lowly background and forces his daughter to marry Bulate. Min then leaves town for development for 5 years and comes back as a...

    Remote Love
  • 2011
    The Chocolate Farmer

    The Chocolate Farmer (2011)

    The Chocolate Farmer

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    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 15 children. As he wields his machete with ease, slicing a path to his cocoa trees, the small jungle ...

    The Chocolate Farmer
  • 2023
    Nostalgia for the Lake

    Nostalgia for the Lake (2023)

    Nostalgia for the Lake

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    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 everyday of a parallel time. when he wakes up, the same song haunts him again and again. his boat, “ara” (...

    Nostalgia for the Lake
  • 2024
    Waira

    Waira (2024)

    Waira

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    In an isolated community, a young indigenous woman fights for her freedom after enduring sexual assaults. Confronted with a life-altering decision, she stands at a crossroads between resisting or forging a path away from the shackles of violence....

    Waira
  • 2018
    The Book of the Sea

    The Book of the Sea (2018)

    The Book of the Sea

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    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 their people with food since time immemorial. It is known, that the whale hunting today is controversial and s...

    The Book of the Sea
  • 2008
    Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family

    Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family (2008)

    Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family

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    In decades past, Native American artists who wanted to sell to mainstream collectors had little choice but to create predictable, Hollywood-style western scenes. Then came a generation of painters and sculptors led by Allan Houser (or Haozous), a Chi...

    Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family