Movies: Indigenous community

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2018
    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência

    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência (2018)

    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência

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    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência
  • 2024
    Mamus

    Mamus (2024)

    Mamus

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    A stunning and intimate portrait of the Arhuaco indigenous community in Colombia. In 1990, in a celebrated BBC documentary, the Arhuaco made contact with the outside world to warn industrialized societies of the potentially catastrophic future facing...

    Mamus
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1963
    Attiuk

    Attiuk (1963)

    Attiuk

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    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 documentary about the rituals surrounding an Innu caribou hunt. Released in 1960, it’s one of 13 titles in Au ...

    Attiuk