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The Secret Path
The Secret Path is an animated film adaptation of Gord Downie's album and Jeff Lemire's graphic novel. Working with Downie's poetry and music, Lemire has created a powerful visual representation of th...
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Trouble In The Garden
A jailed activist is bailed out by her brother, who happens to be involved with the very land development she was protesting.
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Indian Road Trip
When two unruly Native con-artists are forced to drive a cranky elder across the reserve so she can make peace with her long estranged and dying sister, it quickly becomes clear that a supernatural fo...
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Portraits from a Fire
An Indigenous teenage boy fights through distorting realities as a family secret unravels.
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Indian Horse
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles st...
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Black Robe
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict...
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Dance Me Outside
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order...
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Those Damned Savages
A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.
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Clearcut
A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
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Wildhood
Link and his brother flee their abusive father and embark on a journey where Link discovers his sexuality and rediscovers his Mi’kmaw heritage.
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