Indigenous Women Movies

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

It tells the story of 3 scientific renegades: a botanist (Robin Wall Kimmerer), a forester (Suzanne Simard), and a philosopher (Paco Calvo) who...

Amá is a feature length documentary which tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by 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...

In Southern Bahia, seven indigenous women invite to reflection, sharing their mythology, ancestry and paths to living well.

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...

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...

Filmmaker Mary Galloway's feature documentary looks at the origins and continued impact of the famed Cowichan sweater.

In an isolated community, a young indigenous woman fights for her freedom after enduring sexual assaults. Confronted with a life-altering decision,...

Centered around an audio recording of a conversation between kokum Penny Roan and Jennifer Houseman (Tyson's grandmother and mother), kokum Penny...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Can I be nostalgic about something I’ve never experienced?” asks debut filmmaker Pranami Koch. She has in mind her grandmother, a...

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

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