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Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man
Sinakson Trevor Solway | 2025 | 77 min. With tenderness and grace, filmmaker Sinakson Trevor Solway offers an intimate exploration of Indigenous masculinity rarely seen on screen.
Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again
Lyana Patrick | 2025 | 90 min. When the Kenney Dam was built in the 1950s, the Nechako River was forever changed. In the face of environmental destruction, two Nations fight to restore their river and a way of life.
Ninan Auassat: We, the Children
Kim O'Bomsawin | 2024 | 93 min. A “child’s-eye view” of the hopes and hardships of children from three different Indigenous Nations: Atikamekw, Eeyou Cree and Innu, revealing the dreams of a new generation ready to take flight.
Feather Fall
Ossie Michelin | 2024 | 23 min. Feather Fall 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.
The Stand
Christopher Auchter | 2024 | 95 min. Drawn from more than a hundred hours of archival footage and audio, Christopher Auchter’s riveting feature doc recreates the moment when the Haida Nation took a stand for the future.
Wilfred Buck
Lisa Jackson | 2024 | 96 min. Moving between earth and stars, past and present, this rollicking hybrid doc follows the extraordinary life of Cree Elder Wilfred Buck, who overcame a harrowing history by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge.
WaaPaKe (Tomorrow)
Jules Arita Koostachin | 2023 | 80 min. A deeply personal documentary that moves beyond intergenerational trauma to unravel the tangled threads of silence suffered by residential school Survivors through truth, freedom and power.
Mary Two-Axe Earley: I am Indian Again
Courtney Montour | 2021 | 33 min. This documentary shares the story of Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for more than two decades to challenge sex discrimination against First Nations women embedded in Canada’s Indian Act.
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers| 2021 | 125 min. Witness the work of community members with substance-use disorder, first responders, and health professionals in the Kainai First Nation as they bring hope and change through harm reduction to...
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
Tasha Hubbard | 2019 | 98 min. On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man, Colten Boushie, was killed after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural property. The jury’s subsequent acquittal of Stanley captured international attention.
Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair
Alanis Obomsawin | 2021 | 29 min. As the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Sinclair was a key figure in raising global awareness of the atrocities of Canada’s residential school system.
Incandescence
Nova Ami & Velcrow Ripper | 2024 | 105 min. An immersive cinematic experience that weaves together on-the-ground footage with extraordinary stories of survival and adaptation to transform our understanding of wildfire.
Birth of a Family
Tasha Hubbard | 2017 | 79 min. Three Dene sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate non-Indigenous families across North America, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving documentary by director Tasha Hubbard.
Reel Injun
Neil Diamond, Catherine Brainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes | 2009 | 88 min. Featuring hundreds of clips from old classics as well as recent releases, the film traces the evolution of the “Hollywood Indian.
