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...

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

The historic gathering of three hundred indigenous activists from North, South and Central America w...

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

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south c...
This documentary short is the first film made by an all-Aboriginal film crew, training under the NFB...

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

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...

Inuit traditional face tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Director Ale...

When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), held a ...

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

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

Through the figure of Lakota activist and community organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk, this inspiring f...

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

Lonnie Kauk’s personal journey to honor his indigenous Yosemite roots, and to connect with his legen...

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

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinoge...