Indigenous Women Movies

Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that...

A young woman returns to her rural Mexican village after a few years away to find out if her first love can be revived.

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence...

For almost a century, the Coast Salish knitters of southern Vancouver Island have produced Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. These distinctive...

Waters’ LIFT project, ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek), is the fourth of a quartet of films, and...

Maria, a young Spanish doctor, works in a maternity hospital in the Ecuadorian rain forest. She is shocked about the premature pregnancies and the...

Told by the country's first women, Canada's Keepers examines the truth about the country's dark colonial past. Truthful and raw, nine First Nations...

Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the...

ᎠᏲᎧ is a portrait of Ahyoka Youngdeer, Cherokee culture bearer, teacher, and two-spirit activist. Weaving her own life with a...

This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.

Featuring indigenous women of various generations, Pidikwe integrates traditional and contemporary dance in an audiovisual whirlwind that straddles...

Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and disappearances of an estimated 500 Aboriginal women...

The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.

Four close friends have entered a radio contest to determine who can stay at the most spooky haunted location overnight. The group of 4 take a sweet...

Two human skulls in a Scottish museum spark a forensic investigation into the tragic disappearance of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland. The clues...

Raised on horseback in Blackfoot Territory and coached by her father, Logan Red Crow fights to become the first woman to ride the Indian Relay at the...

As the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic affects tribal communities, a group of Blackfeet women tackle the threat head-on by...

Bolivia's Climbing Cholitas - a group of indigenous women scaling the Andes Mountains, some of the highest peaks in the world. Shot in Bolivia for...

The two-year National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, established by Ottawa, heard from 1,484 survivors of violence and...