Indigenous Community Movies

The Guarani people have searched for a land without shadows for a hundred years. The beauty in their home is precious and undeniable, but climate...

Covenant of the Salmon People is a documentary portrait of the Nez Perce Tribe’s ancient covenant with salmon. The film follows their efforts...

Men and women of the !Kung people in Ojokhoe, Namibia perform healing dances by firelight. First we see men perform the giraffe dance, and then...

Shot during three seasons, Kenuajuak's documentary tenderly portrays village life and the elements that forge the character of his people: their...

Joseph is a young doctor who returned to his hometown in the Mountain Province to bury his father, an Ifugao chieftain, who was killed during a...

A group of people bows down as a ritual for religious ceremonies. This community shares a belief named Sapta Drama, one of the native religions in...

This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.

In the hills of Costa Rica, Doña Carmen struggles to pass on her tribe's traditional ways of life. She must soon marry off her only...

A golden object mystifies a young man living in a traditional Solomon Islands village. He dreams of going to the city and wakes up in a nightmare...

It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer....

A botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to remember the genocidal colonization it suffered...

A musical documentary woven around the endangered musical culture of the Rangdani Rabhas from Manikganj, Meghalaya, North East India.

A short film detailing the journey and prospects of returning the skeletons of indigenous peoples' ancestors back to their homeland.

Documentary about how indigenous culture and the achievements of modern tourism intertwine.

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in northern Japan, portraying people from tightly knit...

Yimin, the son of a carriage driver of Xinjiang ethnicity, is in love with Malihan. Malihan's father despises Yimin for his lowly background and...

A documentary that tells the story of five American Indian artists, the Urban Indian 5 (UI5), and their unique partnership.

An undercover documentary film produced and directed by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the struggle of the indigenous Sahrawi people of...

The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put...