Tag: indigenous peoples

As I Am

This short experimental documentary challenges stereotypes about Indigenous people in...

Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course...

Fire on the Amazon

When a well-known environmental researcher is murdered in the Amazon...

Black Man's Houses

In 1832 the government of Van Diemen’s Land sent the...

Button Blanket

This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a...

Vistas: Dancers of the Grass

A stunning display of a stop-motion animation, Dancers of the...

Birdwatchers

Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young...

Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana...

My Name Is Kahentiiosta

This documentary short by Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of...

Our Indians

Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian...

Travelling

Nedarma (Travelling) is one of several documentary features co-directed by...

Two villages, one single walk

With no Forest left to hunt and no land to...

Ñande Guarani (Nós Guarani)

Place of the Boss: Utshimassits

In the '60s, the Mushuau Innu had to abandon their...

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer...

Totem: Return and Renewal

In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return...

Taromenani

In May 2003, around 30 women and children were murdered...

My Colour, Your Kind

A portrait of an albino Aboriginal teenager, her feelings of...

Okimah

This documentary focuses on the goose hunt, a ritual of...

La isla del Infierno

A young slave whishes returning to his homeland, the Canary...

Muffins for Granny

Muffins for Granny is a remarkably layered, emotionally complex story...

The Secret World of Plants

The secret world of plants gets us closer to these...

Seven Songs from the Tundra

An anthology of stories about the indigenous Nenet peoples of...

Shellmound

“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed...