Tantoo Cardinal

Miembros de la tribu Osage de los Estados Unidos, son asesinados bajo misteriosas circunstancias en la década de 1920 provocando una importante investigación por el FBI involucrando a J. Edgar Hoover.

En 1909, en medio del viejo oeste moribundo, Willie Boy, un corredor del desierto de larga distancia por tradición Chemehuevi, se enamora de la joven belleza nativa, Carlota. El padre de Carlota, un chamán chemehuevi y líder tribal local, se niega a dejar...

Dos malévolos demonios hacen un trato con una adolescente fanática del punk para escapar del Inframundo y hacer realidad sus sueños en la Tierra de los Vivos.

An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes.

16-year-old Jeanne awakens in a pool of her own blood, her hands and feet marked with stigmata and her forehead bleeding as if from a thorny crown. This creates conflict, greed and of faith in a community sewn with horrifying secrets.

"Sisters Rising" is the story of six Native American women fighting to restore personal and tribal sovereignty in the face of ongoing colonial violence against indigenous women in the United States. Dawn was in the Army, now she’s a tribal cop in the midst of the North Dakota oil boom that threatens to pull the last threads of her Native culture apart. Patty teaches indigenous women’s self-defense across the Great Plains of her people. Sarah is an attorney and scholar fighting to overturn restrictions on tribal sovereignty and increase legislative protections for Native women. Loreline and Lisa are grassroots advocates working outside of the system to support survivors of violence and influence legislative change. Chalsey is writing the first anti-sex trafficking code to be introduced to a reservation’s tribal court.

Red Snow es una aventura dramática que comienza cuando Dylan, un soldado gwich'in del Ártico canadiense, es atrapado en una emboscada en Panjwayi, Afganistán. Su captura e interrogatorio por parte de un comandante talibán libera un alijo de recuerdos relacionados con el amor y la muerte de su prima inuit, Asana, y lo une más a una familia pastún mientras escapan a través de paisajes traicioneros y a través de una tormenta de nieve que se convierte en la clave para sobrevivir. .

La juventud inuit de una pequeña comunidad del Ártico, con una de las tasas de suicidio más altas de Norteamérica, verá sus vidas transformadas a través del deporte del lacrosse.

Una historia contada desde dos puntos de vista. Will Bird relata los hechos que le llevaron a estar en coma, mientras que su sobrina Annie relata su intento de ayudarle a salir del coma.

Después de la muerte de tres niños sospechosos de ser asesinados por lobos, el experto en lobos Russell Core, es contratado por los padres de un niño desaparecido de seis años para localizar a su hijo en la Alaska salvaje.

A world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover that fame (and the outside world) are not easily left behind.

The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government bureaucrat who disapproves of the Christmas tradition.

Una joven agente del FBI se alía con un veterano rastreador local para investigar el asesinato de una joven ocurrido en una reserva de nativos americanos...

En un futuro distópico, un ingeniero atrapado en una casa y rodeado por una misteriosa banda de intrusos enmascarados debe proteger una tecnología que podría desarrollar energía ilimitada y poner fin a las guerras que han consumido el mundo. Esa tecnología ha creado un bucle temporal que hace que revivan el mismo ataque mortal a su laboratorio una y otra vez.

Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

After a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find hope and reconciliation in the midst of his grief.

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

When an alcoholic detective fights to find a murderer targeting street workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, he struggles to escape the haunting memories of his past and unexpectedly finds solace within the fragile community he endeavours to protect.

Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his clan and the clan of "Men of the Land of Ice." Following this confrontation, Maïna chooses a mission that will change her life. To fulfill the promise that she has made to her friend Matsii on her deathbed, she embarked on the trail of their enemies to deliver Nipki, a 11 year old boy that the Inuit have captured. But she was also taken as prisoner by Natak, the leader of the Inuit group, and forcibly taken to the Land of Ice.

La historia basada en hechos reales gira en torno a una joven coreana que es secuestrada y vendida al mejor postor en una red de prostitución en los Estados Unidos. Muchas chicas en edades tempranas, de todas las nacionallidades, son arrastradas a un mundo de depravación, sufrimiento físico y mental que muchas no son capaces de superar. Rodeadas de muerte, perversión y excesos, descubren que el destino que les espera se encuentra entre los muros de ese campo de internamiento para aprender a satisfacer los más oscuros deseos de los hombres ricos. La exótica Eden no se rinde, y luchará por salir de aquel infierno en el que son tratadas como simple mercancía. Si quiere sobrevivir deberá aprender de su entorno, ganar peso y poder entre su grupo de captores. Con sangre fría y determinación se convertirá en una pieza clave y una influencia determinante para la gente que posee sus vidas. En una súplica desesperada por sobrevivir su último recurso será unir fuerzas con uno de los proxenetas.

Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.

Year 2060. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be dramatically true: global warming of the Earth's atmosphere now has serious consequences on the every day lives of our grandchildren.

Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.

Cuando su programa de televisión concluye la temporada, Prudence McCoy, la conductora del espacio, se toma unas vacaciones en Wyoming. La presentadora decide hospedarse en un pequeño hotel en el que solía alojarse su madre, una de las mejores columnistas del estado. Poco después, fallece el dueño del establecimiento hotelero en lo que parece ser un aparente suicidio y ella decide investigar el caso por su cuenta.

Sidney Foster es una adolescente problemática que se rebela contra todo tipo de autoridad. Su madre decide enviarla a pasar las vacaciones con su ex marido, que vive en un pueblo de Minnesota junto a su nueva familia.

The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to prevent her mother from revealing the atrocities that unfolded at a Native Indian boarding school.

When a government representative announces that he intends to reunite an orphaned orca with his pod by transporting him hundreds of miles over dry land, the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nations Band, which believes that the spirit of their late chief resides in the majestic ocean mammal, does everything within their power to thwart the controversial plan. As the community grows increasingly divided over how to handle the situation, a young aboriginal boy wrestles with his own identity and new Band chief Mike Maquinna prepares for the trial by fire that could shape his entire future.

Unnatural & Accidental is the feature length dramatic film adaptation of the stage play entitled, The Unnatural and Accidental Women by renowned Metis playwright Marie Clements and is based loosely around the "unnatural and accidental" downing deaths of native women living on skid row. Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her mother, an aborig

El protagonista principal, un joven indio rebelde y moderno, con una visión muy pesimista de la vida, va cambiando su actitud con cada cuento narrado por su abuelo en un viaje casi obligado hacia el Pow Wow. En el camino, el joven conocerá varias historias de las naciones Lakota, Cheyeene, Chinoock y Kiowa entre otras, repletas de espíritus de la naturaleza, animales parlantes, magia india, serpientes monstruosas, fantasmas, valor, amistad y el verdadero sentido de la vida que se agita dentro de cada una de ellas. (FILMAFFINITY)

A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It describes the financial and production details, scouting locations, the buffalo hunt, the Lakota Sioux, and the recognition and success the film achieved.

How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Europeans. The newcomers introduced the fiddle to the Aboriginal people they intermarried with along the way. A generation later, their mixed-blood offspring would blend European folk tunes with First Nations rhythms to create a rich and distinct musical tradition. From the Gaspé Peninsula, north to Hudson Bay and to the Prairies, How the Fiddle Flows reveals how a distinctive Metis identity and culture were shaped over time. Featuring soaring performances by some of Canada's best known fiddlers and step dancers and narrated by award-winning actress Tantoo Cardinal.

1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness arrives exhausted at the fort, a wilderness station, claiming she murdered her husband. She's placed in a cell; for the next several months, she sews while the local prefect, Henry Mullen, investigates.

Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out on a journey of discovery following the deaths of her adoptive parents. She finds that connection with her birth family in the Navajo community. But cultures clash when her husband is rejected as an outsider. Rebecca and her family experience rebirth in a rich culture and renewal as a family in this dramatic film based on the autobiography Looking for Lost Bird by Yvette Melanson (with Claire Safran).

Un hombre joven llega a un pueblo perdido de Montana buscando a una chica, Vera Johnson, a quien ofrece trabajo en unos grandes almacenes. Los padres de la chica no se fían del forastero y le convencen para abandonar la ciudad si no quiere ser denunciado. Pero a este aún le falta algo que hacer en ese pueblo...

The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town for their ne'er-do-well leader set the story in motion.

Edith Iglauer, una periodista de Nueva York a quien le gustan las cosas bonitas y la alta cultura, de mala gana acepta una asignación para cubrir el sector de la pesca en la Columbia Británica. Cuando se encuentra con el solitario pescador John Daly, se llevan fatal al principio. Sin embargo, el combate deja traslucir una latente tensión romántica que toma el control cuando los dos se encuentran en una situación de peligro con sólo uno al otro para confiar.

When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the town's population out of work, sawmill owner Logan Reeser is the only one who can stand in their way.

The story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land against the Canadian government in the 1870s and 1880s.

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.

This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the 1990’s.

Tras quedarse huérfano en los años de la Gran Depresión, Pequeño Árbol, un niño cherokee de ocho años, decide ir a vivir a las montañas junto a sus abuelos: Bonnie, una mujer india, y Wales, un hombre blanco de origen escocés que ha asumido los valores de la tribu a la que pertenece su mujer. Con ellos y su amigo John Sauce, un indio con poderes mágicos, aprenderá a encontrar su camino en la vida. Basada en la novela homónima del escritor y líder segregacionista del KKK Asa Earl Carter, con el seudónimo de Forrest Carter.

When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her boyfriend's sister for not being one of their own, aside from Mollie's son. Mollie is forced to pack up her belongings and her children and move to northern California, right into a gang infested neighborhood.

Este western comienza en 1812, época en que los colonos trataban de llevarse más y más territorios aborígenes. Tecumseh, el líder de los indios Shawnee, intenta hacer algo. Planea un gran estado indígena, y trata de vencer a los colonos ingleses...

Real stories of five women of the Old West....

Tantoo Cardinal stars as Alive, the mother of Jack and Samantha. Her children are learning about their past and, in particular, the Treaty land Entitlement settlement that their First Nation has just completed. This is a story that shows the path that previous generations have foretold and how they laid the foundations for the present generation. We also examine the conflict that land claims have created and how they can be solved. Jack's friend Jeff, a non-Native, is caught between the two groups and must learn what the land claim is and how it can be solved everyone's best interests. This is a story that is being repeated as First Nations Continue to develop and take their place within Canada. Source: 1999 imagineNative Catalogue

William Ludlow es un coronel separado de su mujer que vive con sus tres hijos en un gran rancho de Montana, en las colinas de las Montañas Rocosas. La Primera Guerra Mundial y una bella mujer cambiarán el destino de cada uno de ellos para siempre. Sus hijos son el indómito Tristan, el sensato Alfred y el menor Samuel, que acaba de traer al rancho a su bella prometida, Susannah.

Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller

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.

Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and the modern world to maintain his way of life.

River Phoenix (en su último papel) interpreta a un joven inestable que habla con el cadáver de su esposa, una india que murió al dar a luz. El padre del muchacho (Richard Harris) emprende entonces un azaroso viaje para intentar buscar otra esposa india a su hijo, y así consolarle... (FILMAFFINITY)

Matthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on receiving a letter from his mother three months after her death. Prompted by his surroundings to sort through the idealized memories of his childhood, Matthew reaches the horrifying realization that he has returned to a world which he was never a part of. Contemporary Guyanese reality highlights the white colonialist privilege his family had enjoyed.

Martha Townsend es una mujer normal y corriente que lleva una vida admirable. Está casada felizmente con un hombre que la adora, y esperan su primer hijo. Pero su existencia se complica cuando empieza a sufrir una serie de terribles pesadillas, que poco a poco se van convirtiendo en realidad. Asustada, decide pedir ayuda a un experto psicólogo, que descubre que Martha está atrapada por las fuerzas del mal convocadas por un diabólico culto celebrado en América Central. Martha recibe el socorro de una especie de poderes sobrenaturales, provocados por el espíritu de las Tormentas, y de esta manera planta cara a la Gran Sacerdotisa del diabólico culto. Después de dar a luz, cuando parece que su vida vuelve a la normalidad, su bebé es secuestrado con la intención de someterle a un horrible sacrificio.

A mediados del siglo XVII, un sacerdote jesuita francés, el padre Laforque, emprende un peligroso viaje hacia lo que luego sería conocido como el norte de Canadá, y que en esa época era una tierra salvaje dominada por los indios hurones e iroqueses. Junto a un joven local que será su intérprete, Laforque aprenderá algo sobre aquellos a quienes pretende evangelizar, poseedores de sus propios valores espirituales, y también aprenderá algo sobre esa fe interna que él veía como algo inconmovible

A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, Dances With Wolves.

En torno a 1860, en vísperas de la Guerra de Secesión y a punto de terminar el periodo de colonización del Oeste (1785-1890), el teniente John J. Dunbar se dirige a un lejano puesto fronterizo que ha sido abandonado por los soldados. Su soledad lo impulsa a entrar en contacto con los indios sioux y, gracias a ello, conoce a 'En pie con el puño en alto', una mujer blanca que fue adoptada por la tribu cuando era niña. Poco a poco, entre Dunbar y los sioux se establece una relación de respeto y admiración mutuos.

Historia sobre unos jóvenes indios americanos y sus continuas luchas con sus vecinos de Binger, Montana, en la frontera de Canadá. En un esfuerzo por recaudar algo de dinero, se celebra una fiesta en memoria de la antigua batalla que mantenían colonos e indios. La reunión consistirá en representar las luchas que tenían lugar allí 100 años atrás. Se suponía que nadie quedaría herido, que los soldados dispararían balas de fogueo,... Pero cuatro jóvenes "Pies Negros" aprovechan la presencia de turistas en la zona y la repercusión que pueden tener para rebelarse contra el racismo allí existente y, de algún modo, se reproducirá la batalla que se disponían a conmemorar.

A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker

Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.

Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins," is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there some 12 years ago -- Matt Dillon and Kitty Russell.

The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.

En 1931, en el territorio del Yukón (Canadá), Albert Johnson, un trampero que vive en las montañas, es acusado injustamente de asesinato. A partir de ese momento, será el objetivo de una brutal y sanguinaria cacería por parte de un destacamento de la Policía Montada del Canadá, comandado por el sargento Edgar Millen.

A young married woman, after a kidnapping, becomes attached to an Indian.

Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But Prue McKeel is about to enter this enchanted wonderland. Her baby brother Mac has been taken by a murder of crows into the forest’s depths, and she – along with her hapless classmate, Curtis – is going to get him back. Prue might think she’s too old for fairytales, but she’s just found herself at the center of one. One filled with strange talking animals, roguish bandits, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions.