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Ninan Auassat : We, the Children
Kim O'Bomsawin |2024 | 93 min. A powerful film shot from “a child’s eye-view” without the voices of adults, this documentary reveals the dreams of a new generation poised 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 new 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 documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, who overcame a harrowing history by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge.
WaaPaKe (Tomorrow)
Jules Arita Koostachin, Ph. D.|2023 | 80 min. Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin’s deeply personal documentary unravels the tangled threads of silence suffered by residential school Survivors through truth, freedom and power.
Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again (soon in the programming choices)
Lyana Patrick |2024 | 91 min. Nechako is a crucial documentary that follows two Indigenous Nations fighting for our collective future. When the Kenney Dam was built in the 1950s, the Nechako River was forever changed.
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.
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.Alanis Obomsawin shares the powerful speech the Senator, a key figure in raising global awareness of the atrocities of Canada’s residential school system, gave when he accepted the WFM-Canada World Peace...
Hebron Relocation
Holly Andersen |2023 | 15 min. In Hebron Relocation, Holly Andersen explores what makes a place a home as she learns more about her community’s connection to generations of displaced northern Labrador Inuit.
