Truth and Reconciliation

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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Stories are in our Bones Janine Windolph |2019 | 11 min. A mother takes her young city-raised sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother)—a powerful form of resistance that rebuilds their connection to their homeland, and to one another.
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.
Holy Angels Jay Cardinal Villeneuve|2017 | 15 min. Jay Cardinal Villeneuve’s short documentary Holy Angels powerfully recaptures Canada’s colonialist history through impressionistic images and the fragmented language of a child.
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.
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