Indigenous Community Movies

Death is an intimate experience, and how we lay our loved ones to rest, varies between cultures. KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials sheds light on the...

A documentary that tells the story of five American Indian artists, the Urban Indian 5 (UI5), and their unique partnership.

In the rugged mountains of Oaxaca, young basketball players Bernabé, Tobías, and Aniceto battle systemic barriers to redefine their...

TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its surrounding areas), who are and actively in...

Thirty years ago, a rubber company enslaved a group of Asháninka people, manipulating them into tapping the trees in the lush borderland...

A short film detailing the journey and prospects of returning the skeletons of indigenous peoples' ancestors back to their homeland.

Documentary about how indigenous culture and the achievements of modern tourism intertwine.

For over 50 years, the Kahnawake Mohawks, of Quebec, Canada occupied a 10 square block area in the North Gowanus section of Brooklyn, which became...

Covenant of the Salmon People is a documentary portrait of the Nez Perce Tribe’s ancient covenant with salmon. The film follows their efforts...

Manifesto of the Pataxó tribe, with the testimony of the chief José Guajajara, in front of the Monument to Estácio de Sá,...

An undercover documentary film produced and directed by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the struggle of the indigenous Sahrawi people of...

What does it mean to be of a place? Of the sun and soil and bees, of the water and black ants and cowpeas. To be so entangled with an ecosystem,...

In November 2024, two Indigenous ranger teams set out on a 1,900-kilometre journey from the remote community of Bidyadanga in Western Australia to...

With its moving personal approach, careful artistic direction, and inspired sound design, this skillfully symbolic work embodies the importance of...

Joyce Jonathan Crone—Mohawk matriarch, retired teacher, activist, humanitarian—reaches forward into her community of Huntsville, Ontario,...

A musical documentary woven around the endangered musical culture of the Rangdani Rabhas from Manikganj, Meghalaya, North East India.

"Here Where It All Ends" is an experimental, poetic short film that moves between documentary and fiction to address an endangered culture, that of...