Movies: Indigenous community

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 2017
    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film (2017)

    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

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    The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put land art in a tribal context. The group bring together a community to construct the Repellent Fence, a two-m...

    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
  • 2017
    Alifu, the Prince/ss

    Alifu, the Prince/ss (2017)

    Alifu, the Prince/ss

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    Alifu, a 25 year-old Paiwan boy, works as a hair-dresser in Taipei and struggles between his dream of getting a sex change operation and following his father’s footsteps to inherit the title as Chief of the indigenous Paiwan tribe. His lesbian roomma...

    Alifu, the Prince/ss
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1996
    Mumbaki

    Mumbaki (1996)

    Mumbaki

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    Joseph is a young doctor who returned to his hometown in the Mountain Province to bury his father, an Ifugao chieftain, who was killed during a tribal dispute. While there, he discovers his rich heritage and acquires pride in his being an Ifugao. Tho...

    Mumbaki
  • 2014
    Bontok, Rapeless

    Bontok, Rapeless (2014)

    Bontok, Rapeless

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    Two Filipina victims of sexual abuse search the truth behind the finding of a renowned anthropologist: that merely a few generations ago, the Bontok Igorot lived in what seems an unthinkable utopia—a rape-less society....

    Bontok, Rapeless
  • 2021
    Portraits from a Fire

    Portraits from a Fire (2021)

    Portraits from a Fire

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    An Indigenous teenage boy fights through distorting realities as a family secret unravels....

    Portraits from a Fire
  • 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
  • 2023
    Covenant of the Salmon People

    Covenant of the Salmon People (2023)

    Covenant of the Salmon People

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    Covenant of the Salmon People is a documentary portrait of the Nez Perce Tribe’s ancient covenant with salmon. The film follows their efforts to uphold this ancient relationship as dams and climate impacts threaten one of the cornerstones of their cu...

    Covenant of the Salmon People
  • 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
  • 2021
    The Return

    The Return (2021)

    The Return

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    It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer. Meanwhile, news is breaking around the world that a novel virus is spreading and a state of emergency is declar...

    The Return
  • 2019
    Now Is the Time

    Now Is the Time (2019)

    Now Is the Time

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    When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the first new totem pole on British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii in almost a century. On the 50th anniversary of the pole’s raising, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auc...

    Now Is the Time
  • 2024
    The Buriti Flower

    The Buriti Flower (2024)

    The Buriti Flower

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    Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest. Tirelessly persecuted, but guided by their ancestral rites, their love of nature and their fight to preserve...

    The Buriti Flower