Not Just Numbers follows the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group as Matriarch Leaders take action to end domestic violence in their communities. This powerful and inspiring documentary amplifies the voices of Aboriginal women in their homelands. While highlighting the transformational healing...

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Kingston Canadian Film Festival

Set in the 90’s, this dramatic feature introduces audiences to 8 year old Ivy as she grapples to understand the circumstances around her older sister becoming a missing person. Highligh...

"This film functions as both cinema and journalism, the camera pushing us into a world we might not otherwise see and illuminating that world on a human scale." NOW Magazine

Toronto International Film Festival

Our People Will Be Healed, Alanis Obomsawin’s 50th film, reveals how a Cree community...

Toronto International Film Festival
Edinburgh Internatonal Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival

Wayne Wapeemukwa's powerful portrait of five Vancouverites during the 2010 Winter Olympics utilizes doc/fiction hybrid techniques to give voice to those living on the margins of Canadi...

Hot Docs Film Festival
imagineNATIVE Film Festival

Marie Clement's The Road Forward is a musical documentary that utilizes numerous filmmaking techniques to powerful effect. Using the story of Canada’s first Indigenous newspaper, The Native Voice, as its focal point, this particularly distincti...

"In 65 minutes, numerous issues involved in Indigenous community and government relations are deftly explained to give space to this important fight for basic human rights for Indigenous children." - NOW Toronto

Toronto International Film Festival

The story of Jordan River Anderson, an Indigeno...

Toronto International Film Festival

In this feature-length documentary, Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of Shannen's Dream, a national campaign to provide equitable access to education in safe and suitable schools for First Nations children. Strong participation in this initiative eventually br...

The story of the killing of Colten Boushie and his family's pursuit of justice.

Accompanied by the beat of a drum, Odemin, heart berry, reminds us of the importance of connecting oneself with the land and water while exploring themes of self love and body image in this healing short film.

Canada - 2020 - 3mins
Directed By: Kijâtai-Alexandra Veillette-Cheezo
Written By: Kij...

Toronto International Film Festival
Annecy International Animation Film Festival
SXSW

We are transported to the arctic and beyond as a young shaman apprentice is met with her first obstacle. On a guided journey to the underworld she is tasked to find the answers needed to help heal an sick comm...

imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival

An incredibly sweet story of a single mother who has dedicated her life to her child and, working hard for her family, goes out for a night of fun. She meets someone special and has to navigate her feelings during the initial parts of a queer relationship...

Captured across a span of three years amidst the cultural transmission camps in the community of Manawan, this documentary sheds light on the critical need for cultural preservation. ANISKENAMAKEWIN is a testament to the power of film as a tool for advocacy and celebrates the resilience and stren...

Megwitetim interacts with the land and water through the lens of a young native girl recalling a moment in time with her mother. The sounds of wind, birds and water are accompanied by visuals of sweetgrass surrounded by the bush and waterfront, immersing audiences in a short film that is rooted i...

Sundance Film Festival

Centering protests, poetry, and the fight for Indigenous sovereignty, slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is heralded as a voice for the next generation of Native Hawaiians as her calling to protect sacred sites atop Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, reinvigorates her art.

USA ...

Sky Hopinka combines audio recordings of his father with increasingly abstract video images of the landscapes they separately traversed. “Jáaji” is a near translation for directly addressing a father in the Hočak language.

2016 - USA - 7m 40s
Directed By: Sky Hopkina

The Kari trees in New Zealand are dying from ideas created by the encroachment onto their country. Kauri is a moving poem, a warning from Mother Earth to remember the impact society has on other living beings like the trees, oceans, animals, and land.

New Zealand - 2019 - 5m
Dir. Alex Lazarowich...

Sundance Film Festival

Through evocative storytelling and breathtaking cinematography, Eva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland share the captivating journey of the Inuk art of throat singing in Kangirsuk across four seasons. KATATJATUUK KANGIRSUMI is a powerful ode to Inuit brilliance and explores trad...

Sundance Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival

Caroline Monet's short film Mobilize flows seamlessly through the rushing waterways of the far north parallel to the fast-paced urban south, witnessing the hasty streets of a city and the charging force of a canoe on water. In tandem wi...

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival

Nowhere Land focuses on Bonnie Ammaaq and her family as they remember the vastness and irreplaceable richness of living on the land. When the family relocates to Igloolik, they face the confines modern society can impose and how col...

Inspired by true events, and through an emotional approach, we discover resiliency through dance.

Canada - 2020 - 4m 28s
Directed By: Taylor Crowspreadshiswings
Written By: Taylor Crowspreadshiswings

In an inspired and powerful text, the talented Innu poet Natasha Kanapé Fontaine invites us to rise up to bring light to the world.

Canada - 2015 - 4 m 12 s
Directed By: Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
Written By: Natasha Kanapé Fontaine

On the unceded Anishnabe territory sits an old abandoned airstrip. Built without the consent of the Anishnabe people, this airstrip becomes a metaphor for Haylee to address clear cutting and the impacts it has on her family's traditional lifestyle.

Canada - 2014 - 3m 40s
Directed By: Hayley Not...

Elders from a remote Innu village recall what the nomad life used to mean for their people. We learn all about the knowledge and rituals of a former nomadic people.

Canada - 2017 - 10m 24s
Directed By: Kateri Jade Lalo

A poetic and contemplative film about an Inuk man hunting for northern lights with his camera.

Canada - 2016 - 4m 4s
Directed By: George Annanack
Written By: George Annanack