indigenous community movies page 2

Now Is the Time (2019)
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Documentary

When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the first new totem pole on British Columbia’s Haida...

Sacha Runa Yachay (2007)
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Documentary

The elders of the Kichwa community of Sarayaku preserve the history of their land for the youngest. They save the knowledge of their traditions...

Invisible Stories (2022)
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Documentary

This documentary rescues the valuable work of Martha Colmenares, an indigenous woman from the Zapotec highlands, who in the 1980s filmed the life and...

Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage (2005)
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Documentary

In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance,...

Ayahuasca, Expansão da Consciência (2018)
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Documentary

Defenders of Life (2015)
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Drama

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 granddaughter,...

Waira (2024)
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Drama

In an isolated community, a young indigenous woman fights for her freedom after enduring sexual assaults. Confronted with a life-altering decision,...

Nostalgia for the Lake (2023)
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Documentary, Fantasy

A vision from Limbo, where the canoeist of the eternal lake floats in his boat, between sleep and wakefulness. When he sleeps, he dreams of the...

The Medicine of Forgiveness (2001)
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Documentary

Benito Arévalo is an onaya: a traditional healer in a Shipibo-Konibo community in Peruvian Amazonia. He explains something of the onaya tradition,...

Tawai: A Voice from the Forest (2017)
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Documentary

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand humanity's changing relationship with the world...

The Fire of a Firefly (2023)
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Drama

Pedro, an indigenous migrant, returns to his village for his mother's funeral. When he learns of the serious problem his brother Ismael is involved...

Woven Songs of the Amazon (2007)
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Documentary

The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called kené....

Xondaros - Guarani Resistance (2023)
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Documentary, Drama

The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the...

Bontok, Rapeless (2014)
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Documentary

Two Filipina victims of sexual abuse search the truth behind the finding of a renowned anthropologist: that merely a few generations ago, the Bontok...

Kawa (2023)
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Drama, Science Fiction

A group of scientists digs on land within the Amazon in search of fertile black earth, used for agricultural purposes. As they approach the site of...

Castanho (2023)
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Drama, Mystery

Living in the countryside of the Amazon in Brazil, Argentinian María divides herself between two lives: in the community, where she lives with Dona...

Portraits from a Fire (2021)
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Drama, Comedy

An Indigenous teenage boy fights through distorting realities as a family secret unravels.

Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore (2009)
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Documentary

Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very...

Mother River (2020)
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Documentary, Family, Drama

In a remote Peruvian city, lives Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent who sells candies more than 20 years ago, with the rain will...

Yawar fiesta: Fiesta de sangre (1986)
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Drama

An indigenous tradition in the highlands of Peru where three key players take part: a wild condor, a raging bull and brave young men.