Movies: Indigenous rights

  • 2023
    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance (2023)

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance

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    The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the proximity to the city, which brings lack of resources, pollution of rivers and springs, racism, police v...

    Xondaros - Guarani Resistance
  • 1993
    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance (1993)

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

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    In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness....

    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance
  • 1984
    Where the Green Ants Dream

    Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

    Where the Green Ants Dream

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    The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining com...

    Where the Green Ants Dream
  • 2024
    Mauri

    Mauri (2024)

    Mauri

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    Mauri (life principle, life force, vital essence inherent in all living things) The film is an intimate, visually stunning testament to a land and a people who have survived removal, exploitation and colonization — and to the healing ways that are p...

    Mauri
  • 1969
    BETWEEN

    BETWEEN (1969)

    BETWEEN

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    Initially embarking on an unplanned personal filmmaking project, Ilias Boukhemoucha finds himself drawn to the overlooked corners and marginalized communities within Canadian cities....

    BETWEEN
  • 2009
    The Experimental Eskimos

    The Experimental Eskimos (2009)

    The Experimental Eskimos

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    In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three young Inuit boys were separated from their families in the Arctic and were sent to Ottawa, the nation's capital, to live with white families and to be edu...

    The Experimental Eskimos
  • 1975
    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims

    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims (1975)

    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims

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    "A documentary film which looks at the issue of British Columbia Native land claims and how the aboriginals link their culture to the land, which has been stolen by the dominant white culture of North America. In the film, the argument is presented t...

    The Land is the Culture: A Case for BC Indian Land Claims
  • 2019
    Trouble In The Garden

    Trouble In The Garden (2019)

    Trouble In The Garden

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    A jailed activist is bailed out by her brother, who happens to be involved with the very land development she was protesting....

    Trouble In The Garden
  • 1996
    No Turning Back

    No Turning Back (1996)

    No Turning Back

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    This film follows the aftermath of the Oka crisis, which brought Indigenous rights into sharp focus. After the barricades came down, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was created, and travelled to more than 100 communities and heard from mor...

    No Turning Back
  • 2020
    The Last Ice

    The Last Ice (2020)

    The Last Ice

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    For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada and Greenland, the outside world sees unprecedented opportunity. Oil and gas deposits, faster shipping ...

    The Last Ice
  • 2025
    Feather Fall

    Feather Fall (2025)

    Feather Fall

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    This short documentary revisits Mi’kmaq territory, where an iconic moment was captured in 2013—igniting into a symbol of Indigenous resistance and halting fracking exploration on unceded lands....

    Feather Fall
  • 1969
    First Warrior

    First Warrior (1969)

    First Warrior

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    Australia was colonized in the late 1700s. Pemulwuy, a man of the Bidjigal tribes — from the region that is today modern-day Sydney — led a 12-year resistance against British settlers moving into his people’s traditional lands....

    First Warrior
  • 2017
    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film (2017)

    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

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    The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put land art in a tribal context. The group bring together a community to construct the Repellent Fence, a two-m...

    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
  • 2022
    The Bears on Pine Ridge

    The Bears on Pine Ridge (2022)

    The Bears on Pine Ridge

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    The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has declared a “State of Emergency”, after an outbreak of youth suicides has devastated the community. Due to a lack of Federal assistance, residents have taken prevention efforts into their own hands. A tenacious Og...

    The Bears on Pine Ridge
  • 2016
    Promised Land

    Promised Land (2016)

    Promised Land

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    Promised Land is a social justice documentary that follows two tribes in the Pacific Northwest: the Duwamish and the Chinook, as they fight for the restoration of treaty rights they've long been denied. In following their story, the film examines a l...

    Promised Land
  • 2020
    Invasion

    Invasion (2020)

    Invasion

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    In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation are standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence ag...

    Invasion
  • 1992
    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus (1992)

    Surviving Columbus

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    This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples....

    Surviving Columbus
  • 1971
    As Long as the Rivers Run

    As Long as the Rivers Run (1971)

    As Long as the Rivers Run

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    Examines the violence and civil disobedience leading up to the hallmark decision in U.S. v. Washington, with particular reference to the Nisqually Indians of Frank's Landing in Washington....

    As Long as the Rivers Run
  • 2024
    Echoes Within

    Echoes Within (2024)

    Echoes Within

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    “Can I be nostalgic about something I’ve never experienced?” asks debut filmmaker Pranami Koch. She has in mind her grandmother, a person she never knew who belonged to the Koches, a people in India with their own culture and traditions. In her searc...

    Echoes Within
  • 2012
    A Struggle to Remember

    A Struggle to Remember (2012)

    A Struggle to Remember

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    The video documentary "A Struggle to Remember: Fighting for Our Families" puts faces and narratives to the story of the struggle for family leave in Canada. The 20-minute film shows how it became accepted that women be able to return to their jobs af...

    A Struggle to Remember