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.

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

Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decoloniza...

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

In this revealing study of Norval Morrisseau, filmed as he works among the lakes and woodlands of hi...
This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the pe...

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

Resident Orca tells the unfolding story of a captive whale’s fight for survival and freedom. After d...
This documentary short is the first film made by an all-Aboriginal film crew, training under the NFB...

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

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

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

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

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...

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 ...

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south c...
A cinematic wonder & incredible opportunity to learn about Indigenous ways of knowing. A group of pu...

The third and final part of a trilogy based on Arctic creation myths. The film is a multifaceted tis...

A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay...

The Hudson's Bay Company's 300th anniversary celebration was no occasion for joy among the people wh...