Margaret 是美国一家知名出版公司的高管,办事出色,为人却极为强势,一旦她的身影出现在办公室,气氛立即会降至冰点,员工们在表面上无不对她噤若寒蝉,在心底则暗呼她为“女魔头”。Margaret对这一切置若罔闻,照旧施行铁腕政策,可就在她事业如日中天之际,一个噩耗却几乎把她砸晕——因为某些技术性原因,她的签证无法续签,而她本人不得不被遣送回原籍加拿大。为了保住她苦心经营的一切,Margaret决定和助手Andrew 伪装结婚,以取得在美居住权。在半利诱半胁迫之下,Andrew答应了这个荒唐的要求。移民局将在一周后对两人进行测试,而Margaret对Andrew还是一无所知,这个周末,她和Andrew一同回到他的家乡……
当一名律师失去了阻止伐木公司砍伐美洲原住民土地的上诉时,一名印第安人激进分子将他和被绑架的伐木工厂经理拖进了森林。律师的空谈是关于公司的贪婪应该受到怎样的惩罚,这是亚瑟的残酷行为,他以寓言的方式折磨经理,模仿伐木者对森林的所作所为。
“Those Who Come, Will Hear” proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec – all threatened with extinction. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung tongues through listening to the daily life of those who still speak them today. Buttressed by an exploration and creation of archives, the film allows us to better understand the musicality of these languages and reveals the cultural and human importance of these venerable oral traditions by nourishing a collective reflection on the consequences of their disappearance.
Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his home province, in this urgent documentary on Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land, and their futures.
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
The Indian Act, passed in Canada in 1876, made members of Aboriginal peoples second-class citizens, separated from the white population: nomadic for centuries, they were moved to reservations to control their behavior and resources; and thousands of their youngest members were separated from their families to be Christianized: a cultural genocide that still resonates in Canadian society today.
Saskatchewan, Canada, late 19th century. The negligence of Dan Candy, sergeant of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, allows Almighty Voice, a young Cree warrior, to escape.
In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, written and directed by Edward S. Curtis and acted entirely by Kwakwaka'wakw natives. It was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans; the second, eight years later, was Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North.
CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US archives it depicts the true story of Charles' involvement with the US Air Force and the development of the code talkers communication system, which was used to transmit crucial military communications, using the Cree language as a vital secret weapon in combat.
女孩即将离开故乡到新的城市上学,为了融入冰冷的环境她曾做过尝试。好在她遇上了愿意帮助她的男孩,他在课堂上激辩殖民史与原住民的悲惨命运,对抗同僚间对“外来人”的冷暴力。电影以青少年充满共鸣的同理视点切入,讲述了青少年成长时期的迷惘和有关身份认同的故事。
"Blockade" takes place in the mountains and valleys of northern British Columbia, at the heart of the boldest aboriginal land claims case to challenge the white history of Canada. The Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs claim that everything within 22,000 square miles, including the trees, is rightfully theirs.
ARCTIC SUMMER is a poetic meditation on Tuktoyaktuk, an Indigenous community in the Arctic. The film captures Tuk during one of the last summers before climate change forced Tuk's coastal population to relocate to more habitable land.
该刀的边缘是关于骄傲,悲剧,一个忏悔的长篇海达语电影。 Adiits'ii,在电影的主角,是精神上和身体推到了生存的边缘,成为Gaagiixiid / Gaagiid - 海达怀尔德曼。该Gaagiixiid是海达最受欢迎的故事之一,持续多年来,虽然歌曲和性能。这个项目是一个社区计划从海达人以及来自理事会海达国家的大力支持。
This documentary digs into the stories of Indigenous women and families to reclaim their Indian Status through their fight for the elimination of sex-discrimination in the Indian Act. It highlights the impacts of the law on individuals, families and communities. Since the passing of Bill S-3 and its amendments, thousands of Indigenous people are now eligible for Indian Status.
The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal purchases - a right established by the Jay Treaty of 1794 - Kanien'kéhaka protesters blocked the international bridge between Ontario and New York State.
In the Canadian Northwest, the Chippewa tribe struggles to find food before the onset of winter.
A social statement on the irreversible and detrimental impact of gas and oil exploration on our planet and in particular the impact that hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' will have on Kainaiwa, or the Blood Reserve in Canada. This film was shot with a completely Indigenous cast and crew.
In a small town in the Canadian Arctic, Ippik, a young Inuit woman, suffers in an abusive relationship. She starts to heal when she connects with other victims of violence and finds her voice.
An examination of the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, the film explores the reasons why Indigenous women are uniquely vulnerable to violence by juxtaposing the stories of some missing or murdered women with the personal testimonies of women who are doing activism on the issue and women who have personally survived incidents of violence.
A classic concert by Gordon Lightfoot from 1972, accompanied by Red Shea and Richard Haynes. They perform songs including Summer Side of Life, Saturday Clothes, That's What You Get For Loving Me, Affair on 8th Avenue, If I Could Read Your Mind, Steel Rail Blues, Ten Degrees and Getting Colder, Early Morning Rain, Me and Bobby McGee, Minstrel of the Dawn and Canadian Pacific Trilogy.