Indigenous Movies

Xapiri is a Yanomami term that characterizes the shamans, male spirits (xapiri thëpë) and also auxiliary spirits (xapiri pë). Xapiri...

Toronto’s town square is flooded. The city’s infrastructure has merged with local flora. In this radically different future, people have...

Somebody’s Daughter focuses on higher-profile MMIW cases, some of which were raised during the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in December...

A healing and poetic essay on our intergenerational relationship with water.

Rescue bridge of the Tupinambá de Uruçumirim village, headquarters of the Tamoia Confederation until 1567, when it was destroyed in a...

Casper the Friendly Ghost helps Little Feather go hunting.

Acoustic Ocean is an artistic exploration of the sonic ecology of marine life in the North Atlantic. Located on the Lofoten Islands in Northern...

Resilience is dedicated to those whose lives have been fragmented by intergenerational trauma, but who wish to break the cycle.

Released on the 19th of February, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The film explores the process of preparing for a traditional Indigenous vision quest.

Indigenous villages at risk is an ethnographic documentary whose central purpose is to show the direct testimonies of people from nine indigenous...

The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.

A visual poetic collage and a place of joy. Awaiting the decision from here to there.

Short animation by Ricardo Jabardo, about an astral journey by an inhabitant of the Catatumbo region, in the south of the Maracaibo Lake, Venezuela.

In Mexico, a country where indigenous people are increasingly displaced and discriminated against, Lupita, a survivor of one of the worst massacres...

Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.

A lyrical film ode to the odehimin or heart berry. A two-spirit Anishnaabe person finds themself in a dark place with their body. They undertake a...

This film is an initiatory journey among the Fangs of Gabon and the Shipibos of Peru. With the sound of traditional instruments like the mogongo (arc...