In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.

Blood Quantum

2019

English

5.6

♡ 23

90%

native american reservation

quebec

survival

zombie

Jeff Barnaby Director

Devery Jacobs as James

Gary Farmer as Moon

William Belleau as Shooker

Michael Greyeyes as Traylor

The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.

Cold Journey

1975

English

6.6

♡ 6

Martin Defalco Director

Kirk McColl as In The City

Denis Lacroix as In The City

George Pearson as Narration

Chief Dan George as Special Guest

In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him to be a white man and tries to find a way of life more meaningful to his Indigenous culture and ancestry.

Rustic Oracle

2019

English

6.7

♡ 2

96%

Sonia Bonspille Boileau Director

Richard Jutras as Officer Gagne

Richard Robitaille as Officer in Otttawa

Devery Jacobs as Older Ivy

Carmen Moore as Susan

Set in the late 90s, Rustic Oracle is a dramatic feature about Ivy, an 8-year-old girl trying to understand what happened to her big sister who has vanished from their small Mohawk community. With minimal clues, Ivy and her mother Susan embark on an unwelcome journey to find Heather which will ultimately bring the pair closer together despite challenging circumstances. Behind the story of desperation, told through the eyes of a child, lies one of hope, growth, awakening and love.

Parallel Minds

2020

English

3.5

♡ 5

67%

Action

artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

Benjamin Ross Hayden Director

Michelle Thrush as Elise Perrott

Tommie-Amber Pirie as Margo Elson

Shane Ghostkeeper as Policeman

Greg Bryk as Thomas Elliot

In the near future, technology firm Red-Eye is on the verge of developing a revolutionary contact lens that records human sight to replicate memories. When the company’s lead researcher is murdered, Detective Thomas Elliot, and researcher Margo Elson are drawn into searching deeper to apprehend an elusive digital shapeshifter. Soon, both are threatened by their past as they seek to uncover what this dangerous artificial intelligence is trying to consume.

Ainu Mosir

2020

Japanese

6.6

♡ 4

100%

Takeshi Fukunaga Director

Tôko Miura as

Lily Franky as

Debo Akibe as Debo

Sumio Watanabe as Sumio

Kanto, 14, a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, decides to visit a hole in the forest — a path to the other side of the world where dead people live, hoping to see his deceased father.

The Song That Calls You Home

2020

English

8.2

♡ 6

Luis Robledo Director

Cvita Mamic as Self

Anastasia Onegina as Self

Tony Moss as Self

Estela Pangoza as Self

A personal, scientific, mystical exploration of Amazonian curanderismo, focus on Ayahuasca and Master Plants, their healing and visionary properties and risks, along with the Shipibo people and their songs.

Sweetheart Dancers

2019

English

7.2

♡ 1

Ben-Alex Dupris Director

Adrian Stevens as Self

Sean Snyder as Self

Sean and Adrian, a Two-Spirit couple, are determined to rewrite the rules of Native American culture through their participation in the “Sweetheart Dance.” This celebratory contest is held at powwows across the country, primarily for heterosexual couples … until now.

The Turning

2013

English

5.8

♡ 16

86%

David Wenham Director

Hugo Weaving as Bob Lang

Cate Blanchett as Gail Lang

Carol Burns as Marjorie Keenan

Rose Byrne as Rae

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.

Outcast of the Islands

1951

English

6.9

♡ 3

52%

Carol Reed Director

Peter Illing as Alagappan

James Kenney as Ramsey

Marne Maitland as Ships Mate

Trevor Howard as Willems

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.

Dead Man

1995

English

7.5

♡ 97

69%

Jim Jarmusch Director

Steve Buscemi as Bartender

Jared Harris as Benmont Tench

Gary Farmer as Nobody

Johnny Depp as William Blake

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

There's Something in the Water

2019

English

6.8

♡ 7

79%

Ellen Page Director

Stephen Colbert as Self

Ellen Page as Self

John Bates as Self - Head of Nova Scotia Water Authority

Justin Trudeau as Self - Prime Minister of Canada

Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his home province, in this urgent documentary on Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land, and their futures.

Clearcut

1991

English

6.9

♡ 16

84%

Action

based on novel or book

Ryszard Bugajski Director

Graham Greene as Arthur

Raoul Trujillo as Eugene

Rebecca Jenkins as Female Reporter Ron Lea

Ron Lea as Peter Maguire

A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.

Piripkura

2017

Portuguese

7.7

♡ 3

Action

amazon rainforest

central and south america

Renata Terra Director

The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation. Living deep in the rainforest, Pakyî and Tamandua live off the land relying on a machete, an ax, and a torch lit in 1998.

Warriors on the Field

2022

English

6.4

♡ 4

Action

australian football league (afl)

Documentary

indigenous

Larissa Behrendt Director

Michael O'Loughlin as

John Maynard as Self

Scott O'Loughlin as Self

Clyde Rigney as Self

Through the lens of sport, AFL legend Michael O'Loughlin shines a light on the history and experience of the Indigenous Australian people. Current AFL players, Michael Walters and Tarryn Thomas, join O'Loughlin to unpack racism, discrimination and the unbreakable bond they each share with their indigenous communities.

Gurrumul

2017

English

7.9

♡ 4

100%

indigenous australians

Music

Paul Damien Williams Director Sting

Sting as Self

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu as Self

Mark Grose as Self

Michael Hohnen as Self

Blind from birth, Dr G Yunupingu found his identity through song and the haunting voice that has already become legend. His debut album introduced Australia to the Songlines and culture of his Elcho Island community, but now Dr G Yunupingu finds himself increasingly torn between city and country, present and past, self and the community to which he owes so much.

Amá

2018

English

7.2

100%

Lorna Tucker Director

Reimert Ravenholt as Self

Jean Whitehorse as Self

Amá is a feature length documentary which tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the United States Government during the 1960’s and 70’s: removed from their families and sent to boarding schools, forced relocation away from their traditional lands and involuntary sterilization. The result of nine years painstaking and sensitive work by filmmaker Lorna Tucker, the film features the testimony of many Native Americans, including three remarkable women who tell their stories - Jean Whitehorse, Yvonne Swan and Charon Aseytoyer - as well as a revealing and rare interview with Dr. Reimart Ravenholt whose population control ideas were the framework for some of the government policies directed at Native American women.

Indián történet

1962

Hungarian

6.2

♡ 2

Miklós Jancsó Director

Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian.

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

1993

English

7.9

♡ 1

86%

Alanis Obomsawin Director

Alanis Obomsawin as Narration

Robert Bourassa as Self

Ovide Mercredi as Self

Elijah Harper as Self

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.

Rocks at Whiskey Trench

7.4

native american reservation

woman director

Alanis Obomsawin Director

Guy Nadon as King Louis XIV

Alanis Obomsawin as Narrated by

The fourth film in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Oka crisis uses a single, shameful incident as a lens through which to examine the region's long history of prejudice and injustice against the Mohawk population.

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Clearcut

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Warriors on the Field

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Indián történet

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Rocks at Whiskey Trench