Movies: Indigenous community

  • 2025
    Red Girl Rising

    Red Girl Rising (2025)

    Red Girl Rising

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    Joyce Jonathan Crone—Mohawk matriarch, retired teacher, activist, humanitarian—reaches forward into her community of Huntsville, Ontario, opening hearts and bridging gaps for Indigenous education....

    Red Girl Rising
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2002
    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance

    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance (2002)

    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance

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    Men and women of the !Kung people in Ojokhoe, Namibia perform healing dances by firelight. First we see men perform the giraffe dance, and then women perform the !gwa dance....

    Giraffe Dance / !Gwa Dance
  • 2012
    Timuti

    Timuti (2012)

    Timuti

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    In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they call him Timuti, a name that recurs across generations of his people, evoking other Timutis, alive and dead, who will nourish his spirit and shape his ...

    Timuti
  • 2013
    Tokyo Ainu

    Tokyo Ainu (2013)

    Tokyo Ainu

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    TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its surrounding areas), who are and actively in promoting their traditional culture in a metropolitan environment away from their traditional homeland, Ho...

    Tokyo Ainu
  • 2023
    Ozogoche

    Ozogoche (2023)

    Ozogoche

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    Cuviví is the Ecuadorean indigenous name for the upland sandpiper, a wading bird that has special significance for the communities living around the Ozogoche lakes in the middle of the Andes. Each year, these birds migrate south from North America. A...

    Ozogoche
  • 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
  • 1969
    Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock

    Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock (1969)

    Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock

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    Nominated for an Emmy® Award in 2021 for best non fiction special. Winner of 35 grand jury awards. Filmed in 2016 at Standing Rock, North Dakota, this powerful documentary follows the Indigenous leaders as they unite the Native Nations for the first...

    Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock
  • 2018
    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência

    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência (2018)

    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência

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    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1988
    Tiag

    Tiag (1988)

    Tiag

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    Based on the work of Monsignor Leónidas Proaño, Bishop of Riobamba, the daily life of an indigenous community is presented. His family intimacy and his spirituality, manifested through a rich religious syncretism, are perhaps the most important aspec...

    Tiag
  • 1969
    Voices That Heal

    Voices That Heal (1969)

    Voices That Heal

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    Herlinda Augustin is a Shipibo healer who lives with her family in Peruvian Amazonia. Will she and other healers be able to maintain their ancient tradition despite Western encroachment?...

    Voices That Heal
  • 2019
    Sujud

    Sujud (2019)

    Sujud

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    A group of people bows down as a ritual for religious ceremonies. This community shares a belief named Sapta Drama, one of the native religions in Indonesia that uses bowing down as a worshiping medium....

    Sujud
  • 2009
    Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore

    Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore (2009)

    Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore

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    Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very influential, Indigenous film makers. The film The Camera on The Shore is a feature length introduction to Barry...

    Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore
  • 2020
    The Rebellion of Memory

    The Rebellion of Memory (2020)

    The Rebellion of Memory

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    It became world news in October 2019 when economic reforms in Ecuador led to gas prices suddenly shooting up by 123 percent. People from urban and indigenous communities united in protest. In The Rebellion of Memory we follow the events through their...

    The Rebellion of Memory
  • 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
  • 2023
    Here Where It All Ends

    Here Where It All Ends (2023)

    Here Where It All Ends

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    "Here Where It All Ends" is an experimental, poetic short film that moves between documentary and fiction to address an endangered culture, that of indigenous people in the Brazil. It is, in particular, a sharing of knowledge carried out in Aldeia B...

    Here Where It All Ends
  • 1980
    Indian Crafts: Hopi, Navajo And Iroquois

    Indian Crafts: Hopi, Navajo And Iroquois (1980)

    Indian Crafts: Hopi, Navajo And Iroquois

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    This film explores the traditional crafts of Native American tribes, specifically the Hopi, Navajo, and Iroquois. It highlights the craftsmanship of Hopi basket weaving and pottery, showcasing their techniques and cultural significance. The Navajo's ...

    Indian Crafts: Hopi, Navajo And Iroquois