Michelle St. John

After feeling he has nothing left to live for on earth, a lonely geologist tries to qualify for a one-way mission to Mars with the help of an offbeat musician who is just as lost as he is.

In towns throughout Ontario, there are startling reminders of the colonization of Indigenous territories and the displacement of First Nations people. Anishinaabe comedian and activist Ryan McMahon takes us to his hometown of Fort Frances and down its main drag, which is called Colonization Road. Similar streets have similar names in towns and cities across the province, direct reminders of the Public Lands Act of 1853 and its severe impact on First Nations, their treaties and their land in the name of “Canadian settlement.” On his journey through Ontario, McMahon explores the history of these roads, meets with settlers in solidarity and raises significant questions about “reconciliation” and what it means to “decolonize.”

Violence against Indigenous woman is something we’d all like to sweep under the rug … both in mainstream Canadian society and within Indigenous families ourselves. It’s occurred for hundreds of years and is now ever present, and it is brutal and disgusting. Maria Campbell, an acclaimed Metis author from Saskatchewan, knows much about these sad realities in our communities. In this work, Maria sets out to hold a mirror out for Indigenous people and non-Indigenous people to peer into the never-ending legacy of colonial violence. In collaboration Shane Belcourt, the video is a series of heartbreaking vignettes, all wrapped around the imagery of a man in ceremony looking for hope and calling for the ancestors to help us all get back on the good road home.

Abandoned cars rest silently in fields for decades, still holding secret conversations within their bodies.

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 attend the funeral of a dear friend.

Pocahontas vive el mayor reto de su vida en su viaje a Inglaterra. Con la ayuda del apuesto John Rolfe, buscará la paz de su pueblo. Mientra se prepara para el baile de la Caceria, abre poco a poco su corazón a Rolfe. Pero la misteriosa aparición de John Smith sumerge a Pocahontas en un dilema... elegir entre dos amores y dos maneras de vivir.

Una reserva india. Victor Joseph recibe la noticia de la muerte de su padre, que les abandonó a él y a su madre hace años. Sin muchas ganas, emprende el viaje para hacerse cargo de los restos de su padre. Le acompaña un tipo con un don para la narración, que le costea el viaje. Este interesante drama sigue la vida de los indios americanos en la actualidad, un tema poco explorado en el cine.

Teenage Callie has a wild streak. When her mother goes to London on business, she sends Callie to her sister's ranch for a dose of hard work and responsibility. Callie is sullen, at first, naturally, but perks up at the sight of a beautiful but wild black horse. When she overhears of the horse's destruction, due to his inability to be tamed, she arranges to steal the horse with a fellow ranch hand named Rafe. In hiding, the two begin to calm the horse and start his training. It works. But, will their hideaway be discovered?

Pocahontas, la hija del Jefe Powhatan, vigila la llegada de un gran grupo de colonos ingleses, guiados por el ambicioso gobernador Radcliff y el valiente capitán John Smith. Con su juguetón compañero Meeko, un travieso mapache, y con Flit, un alegre pájaro, Pocahontas entabla una fuerte amistad con el Capitán Smith. Pero cuando empiezan a surgir tensiones entre las dos culturas, Pocahontas recurre a la sabiduría de la Abuela Sauce para encontrar una manera de lograr la paz entre su pueblo y los conquistadores.

The story of the greatest Native American warrior who, together with the rest of his Apache tribesmen, defied American and Mexican Armies in 1867. Finally caught and sent to a reservation camp, he eluded a military force of 5000 for 18 months before finally surrendering to the government.

Jesse Threebears is a troubled Native-American teen who has been tossed from one foster home to the next since his mother died when he was an infant. Finally, he is taken in by his grandfather who, after a ten year stint in prison, is living on the reservation. With the help of his grandfather and several others who live on the reservation, Jesse begins to learn about his heritage and how to come to terms with his troubled life.

The true story of an eleven year old girl who has a reputation for telling tall tales. So when she accuses her father of molesting her, will anybody believe her story?

An archaeological expedition journeys to Manitoba, Canada, in search of a legendary crucifix supposedly buried in an ancient Viking grave.

In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.

The story of a young idealistic teacher and his struggle with a class of difficult students in a northern British Columbia school.