Fred Wilson dirige une expédition destinée à trouver de nouveaux gisements de pétrole sur une île inconnue. Jack Prescott, jeune savant qui veut percer les mystères de l'île du Crane et Dwan, une cover-girl recueillie en mer, se joignent à la petite troupe.
Parce qu’il n’a pu sauver un raton laveur perdu en haute montagne, Ace Ventura s’est retiré dans une lamaserie au Tibet. Mais, à la faveur d’une nouvelle mission, Ace Ventura part en Afrique mettre la main sur une chauve‐souris blanche sacrée disparue avant qu’un conflit n’éclate entre les tribus Wachati et Wachootoo.
10 000 ans avant J.-C., un homme de 21 et sa tribu luttent pour survivre en chassant les mammouths. Quand les chasseurs de son clan et la princesse dont il est tombé amoureux sont faits prisonniers, il se lance à leur secours...
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
Les morts-vivants envahissent la réserve isolée de Red Crow, appartenant à la tribu Mi’kmaq. Seuls les Amérindiens sont immunisés contre l’épidémie de zombies.
Sur l’île de Tanna, dans l’archipel de Vanuatu, la tribu Yakel vit selon des coutumes ancestrales dans une forêt dense située près d’un volcan sacré. À l’écart de toute influence de la civilisation « moderne », la petite communauté assure son autosuffisance par la chasse, la pêche et la culture maraîchère. Un jour, la relative tranquillité du clan est remise en question lorsque Wawa, la petite-fille du chamane, et Dain, le petit-fils du chef, tombent amoureux. Promise à un guerrier de la tribu des Imédin pour assurer la paix entre les deux groupes, la jeune femme refuse ce mariage arrangé et part rejoindre Dain, qui a été banni du village par son grand-père. Poursuivis par les Imédin et par des membres de leur propre tribu, les fugitifs tentent d’accéder à une liberté qui semble impossible.
Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride of beauty... pride of strength."
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
With "sealfies" and social media, a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world of activism, using humour and reason to confront aggressive animal rights vitriol and defend their traditional hunting practices. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins her fellow Inuit activists as they challenge outdated perceptions of Inuit and present themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
Le bouton de nacre est une histoire sur l’eau, le Cosmos et nous. Elle part de deux mystérieux boutons découverts au fond de l’océan Pacifique, près des côtes chiliennes aux paysages surnaturels de volcans, de montagnes et de glaciers. A travers leur histoire, nous entendons la parole des indigènes de Patagonie, celle des premiers navigateurs anglais et celle des prisonniers politiques. Certains disent que l’eau a une mémoire. Ce film montre qu’elle a aussi une voix.
Living in the liminal space between worlds, two young women find themselves falling in love for the first time, while also being forced to unexpectedly confront their families, each complicated by legacies of love and loss.
Blind from birth, Dr G Yunupingu found his identity through song and the haunting voice that has already become legend. His debut album introduced Australia to the Songlines and culture of his Elcho Island community, but now Dr G Yunupingu finds himself increasingly torn between city and country, present and past, self and the community to which he owes so much.
From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, the sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent history is told through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population, who now stand poised to reimagine their society.