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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.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Amanda Strong |2024 | 19 min. Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures.
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.
Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again
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.
Our Maternal Home
Janine Windolph | 2023 | 27 min. Tracing their origins to the Cree Nation of Waswanipi, a family confronts the impacts of generational and cultural disconnection, discovering a potent form of medicine: the bonds of kinship.
Themes
- Celebrate French, in March
- National Indigenous History Month
- PRIDE Celebrations
- TD Summer Reading Club (NFB film selection)
- Art, Music, Literature
- Animated films
- International Women’s Day Suggestions
- Black History Month suggestions
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21)
- Teen Zone
- Climate Change
- Truth and Reconciliation
- Youth
- Short documentaries (for discussions or compilations)