In the town of San Miguel Tzinacapan, in Puebla’s Nahua Mountain Range, a family lost its father. His absence transforms the lives of those who were so deeply connected to him. Tere, now in charge of the family, must make money by selling crafts. Jorge is about to finish school and will soon have to choose his own path. Chayo, 16, must make an important decision. A year has passed, and the members of the family have been able to redefine themselves, finding their own destiny while always venerating their father’s memory.
This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the pe...

An NFB crew filmed a group of three families, Cree hunters from Mistassini. Since times predating ag...

“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic c...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in In...

Nose and Tina are a couple in love. The film captures the domestic details of their life together an...

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...
This documentary short is the first film made by an all-Aboriginal film crew, training under the NFB...

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those ...

Salvia Divinorum is an often misunderstood and powerful psychedelic plant used by the Mazatec shaman...

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south c...

In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal ...

Resident Orca tells the unfolding story of a captive whale’s fight for survival and freedom. After d...

Written and hosted by Jack Marks, an American Jewish author who misrepresented himself as Native Ame...

Pete Standing Alone is a Blood Indian who, as a young man, was more at home in the White man's cultu...

Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teach...
A cinematic wonder & incredible opportunity to learn about Indigenous ways of knowing. A group of pu...

In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire betwee...

This short film traces Pete Standing Alone's personal journey from cultural alienation to pride and ...