Un père s'aventure dans la nature australienne dans l'espoir de trouver un gardien pour sa fille alors qu'une mystérieuse épidémie décime peu à peu la population.
En 1931, à Jigalong, près du désert de Gibson, trois filles aborigènes vivent heureuses auprès de leurs mères : Molly, quatorze ans, sa cousine Gracie, dix ans, et sa sœur Daisy, huit ans. Sur ordre de M. Neville, protecteur en chef des Aborigènes pour l'Australie occidentale, le constable Riggs arrache les fillettes à leur famille pour les transférer au camp de Moore River, situé à l'autre bout du continent. Là-bas, les conditions de vie sont sinistres. Les enfants sont entassés dans d'immenses dortoirs, mal soignés, mal nourris. Molly décide de fuir avec Gracie et Daisy, et toutes les trois entament un périple de plus de 2 000 kilomètres...
D'origine irlandaise, Stewart Kane vit en Australie, dans la petite ville de Jindabyne.
Parti avec ses trois amis pour une randonnée de pêche dans les montagnes, il découvre le cadavre d'une jeune femme dans la rivière. Les quatre hommes décident pourtant de ne pas rentrer tout de suite ; ils continuent tranquillement à pêcher et ne signalent leur macabre découverte que quelques jours plus tard.
A leur retour, ils sont confrontés à la colère et à l'incompréhension de toute la communauté.
Ce sera l'occasion de révéler les secrets enfouis par des années de vie commune et d'exacerber les sentiments de haine et d'amour qui agitent plus que jamais les habitants de Jindabyne.
Link est un adolescent rebelle qui habite avec son demi-frère et son oncle violent dans un parc à roulottes en Nouvelle-Écosse. Lorsqu’il découvre que sa mère biologique autochtone est toujours vivante, il fait une fugue pour la retrouver. Son chemin croise alors celui de Pasmay, un charismatique danseur Mi’kmaq qui l’accompagnera dans sa quête. Entre les deux jeunes hommes s’expriment un amour naissant et un partage inespéré de culture et de traditions.
In a small country town, a trio of unlikely friends – Percy Boy, Keithy Cobb and Daisy Hawkins – band together to take the local school sports day title from a group of grade five bullies. But as Percy Boy trains with the help of his mates, he then discovers his supernatural ability to see lost souls – a gift passed down from his grandfather. Percy Boy must overcome his fears, prove his resilience and become a force to be reckoned with.
When his grandfather's drive-in cinema and home in the outback town of Wyndham is threatened with demolition, a twelve-year-old Aboriginal boy must journey through Australia's bush country — equipped only with ancient survival skills — to stop the city developers.
A feature documentary about opera singer Tiriki Onus who finds a 70-year-old silent film believed to be made by his grandfather, Aboriginal leader and filmmaker Bill Onus. As Tiriki travels across the continent and pieces together clues to the film’s origins, he discovers more about Bill, his fight for Aboriginal rights and the price he paid for speaking out.
Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. When it's discovered that Kate, the white wife of local schoolteacher Les, has despoiled a sacred site by secretly meeting her aborigine lover, Tony, there, a shocking murder threatens to rip the small town apart.
A young man reconciles ancient tradition with the modern, urban world in this debut feature from Stephen Page, artistic director of Australia’s renowned Bangarra Dance Theatre.
From the remote Australian desert to the opulence of Buckingham Palace - Namatjira Project is the iconic story of the Namatjira family, tracing their quest for justice.
Provocative, funny and profoundly moving, Bastardy is the inspirational story of a self proclaimed Robin Hood of the streets. For Forty years and with infectious humour and optimism, Jack Charles has juggled a life of crime with another successful career- acting
Join a grassroots collective of volunteers as they search Winnipeg’s Red River and its banks for clues to find out what happened to their missing family and friends. The documentary demonstrates the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who didn't come home with profundity and humanity.
In this feature documentary, Aboriginal filmmaker and artist Alanis Obomsawin chronicles the determination and tenacity of the Listuguj Mi'gmaq people to use and manage the natural resources of their traditional lands. Our Nationhood provides a contemporary perspective on the Mi'gmaq people's ongoing struggle and ultimate success, culminating in the community receiving an award for Best Managed River from the same government that had denied their traditional rights.
Two Aboriginal brothers are put in a hard situation by a miner who kills a man for gold. Based on real events.
Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. Considered a milestone in documentary cinema, it addressed the country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards.
During the time of the Stolen Generations, thousands upon thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian Government. They were supposedly employed as servants, but with total control over their movements, wages and living conditions, their lives all too frequently became an inescapable cycle of abuse, rape and enslavement, with consequences that echo powerfully to this day. Recounting the stories of five of these women – Rita, Violet and the three Wenberg sisters – Servant or Slave is a commanding piece of first-person testimony to a dark and unacknowledged corner of Australian history. Shot with admirable craft and humanity by documentarian Steven McGregor (Croker Island Exodus, MIFF 2012), Servant or Slave is a work of great sadness and urgency, bringing to forceful life the human tragedy of Australia's Indigenous history in the unadorned words of those who lived it.
Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations-owned railway. Come for the celebration of the power of independence, the crucial importance of aboriginal owned businesses and stay for the beauty of the northern landscape.
In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal documents the events of the final journey of the G'psgolox Pole as it returns home to Kitamaat and the Haisla people, from where it went missing in 1929.
A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal playwright Yvette Nolan.
Xapiri is a Yanomami term that characterizes the shamans, male spirits (xapiri thëpë) and also auxiliary spirits (xapiri pë). Xapiri is an experimental film about Yanomami shamanism that was filmed during a meeting of 37 shamans at the Watoriki Reserve, Roraima, in March of 2011. The film was designed to take into account two different notions of image: those of the Yanomami and ours. Therefore, it does not set out to explain shamanism, its methods or procedures, but to allow different cultures to visualize and feel the way in which the shamans “embody” the spirits, their bodies and voices.