Indigenous Women Movies

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...

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

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

Opens Looks is a short film told in English and Cook Islands Māori. A story of love, redemption and basketball.

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

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

Afghan documentary maker Najiba Noori offers not only a loving and intimate portrait of her mother Hawa, but also shows in detail how the arduous...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

With its moving personal approach, careful artistic direction, and inspired sound design, this skillfully symbolic work embodies the importance of...

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

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

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...

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