When diagnosed with breast cancer, a Mohawk mother struggles with the decision to undergo chemotherapy and risk losing her hair—a marker of identity and strength.

Synopsis

Independent filmmaker, writer and director Roxann Karonhiarokwas Whitebean shares her battle with breast cancer with the world.

When violence erupts in her community, Otsi:tsa, a young Mohawk girl, stands between her people and the might of colonial oppression.

Synopsis

When violence engulfs her community during the Oka Crisis, a 78-day standoff that erupted between the Mohawk Nation and the Canadian Government in 1990, Otsí:tsa refuses to be defeated.

A young Indigenous female street artist named Mia’ walks through the city streets painting scenes rooted in the supernatural history of her people.

Synopsis

MIA’ is a hybrid documentary using animation and sound as a vehicle to tell the story of transformation and re-connection. Indigenous people in Canada experienced displacement once commercial trade turned into settlement. Today the urban population of Native people now outnumbers those living on-reserve. Many struggle being disconnected from their land, rites, and protocol. This film is not an adaptation or a re-telling of a traditional story but is based in the circular time of, and passage of, oral history.

A statement about the appropriation of Inuit culture throughout history.

Synopsis

Filmmaker Jobie Weetaluktuk, originally from Inukjuak, Quebec, mixes archival and new footage that encourages us to think about how we've perceived and interacted with Inuit culture throughout history.

After a difficult period in his life, Sonny reconnects with his culture and finds serenity.

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This film tells how a young man changes his life from drugs and alcohol to become a traditional dancer.

A residential school musical.

Synopsis

On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in her Cree language. When the girl arrives at her destination, she undergoes a transformation that will turn the woman’s gentle voice into a howl of anger and pain.

A small glimpse into a typical Native girl’s life before becoming one of 1200+ Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada.

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A dramatic short film that follows troubled, 14-year old, Shayna Hill as she is admitted and runs away from her group-home.