indigenous lgbt movies

Big Eden (2000)
6.3 / 10

Drama, Romance

Henry Hart is a young gay artist living in New York City. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry puts his career on hold and returns home to the...

This Place (2022)
5.5 / 10

Drama, Romance

Living in the liminal space between worlds, two young women find themselves falling in love for the first time, while also being forced to...

Sweetheart Dancers (2019)
9 / 10

Documentary

Sean and Adrian, a Two-Spirit couple, are determined to rewrite the rules of Native American culture through their participation in the “Sweetheart...

Kawa (2010)
5.5 / 10

Drama

A psychological drama of a family in crisis. Kawa, a successful Māori businessman in Auckland, New Zealand, is forced to reveal his lifelong secret...

Kumu Hina (2014)
6.4 / 10

Documentary

A transgender Native Hawaiian teacher inspires a young girl to fulfill her destiny of leading the school's male hula troupe, even as she struggles to...

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992)
6.4 / 10

Documentary, History

Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own...

Two Spirits (2009)
4.2 / 10

Documentary

Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he 'bug-smashed a fag'. But Fred was part of an...

Drunktown's Finest (2014)
6.3 / 10

Drama

On a desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people – a college-bound, devout Christian; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a...

Natives (2013)
6.3 / 10

Drama, Comedy

Anita grew up on the Seneca Indian reservation, and for the first time ever, she's bringing her partner Rachel to meet her parents.

Fire Song (2015)
5.7 / 10

Drama

Shane, a gay Anishnabe teenager in Northern Ontario, is struggling to support his family in the aftermath of his sister's suicide. If he fails, he...

The Business of Fancydancing (2002)
5.8 / 10

Music, Drama

Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Indian poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to...

Wërapara (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary

Amidst the Colombian Andes, a group of trans women from the Embera Chami community make their way into the international fashion scene, empowered...

I Seek Your Help to Bury a Man (2023)
0 / 10

Drama, History, Fantasy, Mystery

Empire of Brazil, 1870. A queer indigenous body slowly dies on the cross while a transgender gypsy woman is banned by her people. A half-breed...

Minority Within a Minority (2021)
0 / 10

Documentary

Ritni Pieski wishes it was easier for Sámi queer youth to grow up in their community. In this short film, Pieski addresses the lack of...

Once Upon a Time in the Bay (2022)
0 / 10

Comedy

When two LGBTQ+ Indigenous friends desperately search for fellow gay people in a straight-ass NZ beach town, they find that the true pot of gold at...

Nikâwiy (2023)
0 / 10

Leitis in Waiting (2018)
1 / 10

Documentary

The story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga Leitis, an intrepid group of transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and...