Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy weaves together a broad portrait of the impact of settler colonialism on Blackfoot people, through firsthand experiences of people with substance use disorder, and the
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With a world premiere at Hot Docs, award-winning investigative journalist Tanya Talaga has co-directed Spirit to Soar, a film debut, which follows up on the tragic stories in her award-winning non-fiction book
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"Everything exists in a mixture between Quechua mythology and reality. It’s reality in the sense that we have the plaza, the prison, the mountains – everything we have in Bolivia – but
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Michelle Latimer's Inconvenient Indian adapts the popular book by Thomas King and shatters colonial narratives about Indigenous people. history and representation.
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In Kim O'bomsawin's Call Me Human, Innu artist Joséphine Bacon says, "“I don’t think we needed the word ‘poetry’ or ‘poem’ in our language, because we were poets, simply by living in
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Keep ReadingMust see Indigenous documentaries and movies from the National Film Board of Canada.
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Now is the time for artists like Christopher Auchter. The Haida filmmaker revisits a slice of NFB history and a seminal event in his community’s history with his new documentary Now Is
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