Indigenous Movies

Part oral history and part visual poem, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is the story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational...

More than an attachment to our territory, the Innu live a filial relationship with Nitassinan, our ancestral homeland. For so many generations, the...

Combining archival photos with new and found footage, this short film presents a personal, impressionistic rendering of what it's like growing up...

Sammy Gadbois uses candid moments to question his purpose on earth.

RESIST; The Unist'oten's Call to the Land is a short documentary that was filmed in the summer of 2013 on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory, 1000 km...

An unapologetic confrontation of cultural appropriation and everything that’s wrong with hipsters in headdresses.

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

This very short film from the Canada Vignettes series documents the annual pilgrimage that members of Saskatchewan’s Métis Catholic...

Norma Kpaima's contribution to indigenous education is unique and urgent for neglected communities.

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern...

Atikamekw elder Cézar Néwashish continues to recount the history of the community of Manawan that first began in The History of...

Angels Gather Here’ follows Jacki Trapman’s journey back to her hometown of Brewarrina to celebrate her parents, Bill and Barbara’s...

SapiKuna is a documentary exploring the ancestral knowledge of the Kichwa cultures in the Ecuadorian highlands. Through voices, rituals, and...