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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.
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.
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.
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.
Nirilaurta (Available for programming starting November 21, 2026)
Malaya Qaunirq Chapman |2026 | 52 min | in Inuktitut and English, with English subtitles. Nirilaurta tells the story of a community that draws on Inuit culture, land-based knowledge and kinship to nourish their bodies, spirits and one another.
