Movies: Indigenous community

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2018
    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência

    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência (2018)

    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência

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    Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência
  • 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
  • 1994
    Innu

    Innu (1994)

    Innu

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    Innu
  • 2016
    Train leaves two towns

    Train leaves two towns (2016)

    Train leaves two towns

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    In Ecuador, in a single day, the train passes from the mountainous Andes to the tropical coast. The roads were built between 1861 and 1908 to connect the country. Until this date, the two regions live as separate countries, although the roads connect...

    Train leaves two towns
  • 2023
    Kawa

    Kawa (2023)

    Kawa

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    A group of scientists digs on land within the Amazon in search of fertile black earth, used for agricultural purposes. As they approach the site of the Kawa Indians, they notice that the land acquires energetic and sensory powers....

    Kawa
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2024
    Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo

    Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo (2024)

    Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo

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    A cinematic wonder & incredible opportunity to learn about Indigenous ways of knowing. A group of puppeteers are transformed by their experience of "being buffalo" at night under the stars. Amethyst First Rider tells the puppeteers, "You are the buff...

    Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo
  • 2007
    Tóxico, Texaco, Tóxico

    Tóxico, Texaco, Tóxico (2007)

    Tóxico, Texaco, Tóxico

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    The imagination of history in Ecuador never thought that oil, “its redeeming hope”, discovered in the Lago Agrio No. 1 well, was going to mean the beginning of the worst environmental catastrophe on the planet. Thirty years of operation and exploitat...

    Tóxico, Texaco, Tóxico
  • 2023
    Castanho

    Castanho (2023)

    Castanho

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    Living in the countryside of the Amazon in Brazil, Argentinian María divides herself between two lives: in the community, where she lives with Dona Belém and her son, and on her suspicious trips....

    Castanho
  • 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
  • 1999
    My Village in Nunavik

    My Village in Nunavik (1999)

    My Village in Nunavik

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    Shot during three seasons, Kenuajuak's documentary tenderly portrays village life and the elements that forge the character of his people: their history, the great open spaces and their unflagging humour. Though Kenuajuak appreciates the amenities of...

    My Village in Nunavik
  • 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
  • 2022
    Helena of Sarayaku

    Helena of Sarayaku (2022)

    Helena of Sarayaku

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    Helena is 17 years old and studies in Finland. Her father, a Swede, and her mother, indigenous Kichwa of Sarayaku, live at the heart of the Amazon in Ecuador....

    Helena of Sarayaku
  • 1969
    Ameríndia - Memória, Remorso e Compromisso no V Centenário

    Ameríndia - Memória, Remorso e Compromisso no V Centenário (1969)

    Ameríndia - Memória, Remorso e Compromisso no V Centenário

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    Ameríndia - Memória, Remorso e Compromisso no V Centenário
  • 2022
    KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials

    KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials (2022)

    KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials

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    Death is an intimate experience, and how we lay our loved ones to rest, varies between cultures. KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials sheds light on the ongoing battle by Native Hawaiians to protect burial sites across the state and the iwi, or sacred bones...

    KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials