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.

제임스 타운의 방문을 마치고 영국으로 돌아간 존 스미스는 래트클리프의 음모에 빠져 실종된다. 방해자를 없앤 래트클리프는 인디언의 땅에 군대를 파견하자고 영국 국왕을 설득하지만, 제임스 왕은 먼저 인디언 추장을 만나 보겠다며 존 랄프를 단장으로 하는 새로운 선단을 파견한다. 존 랄프는 포화탄족의 추장에게 평화사절로 영국 국왕을 만나러 가지고 설득하지만, 인디언들은 추장에 여행을 떠나야할 필요를 느끼지 못했고, 결국 포카혼타스가 영국에 가기로 결정한다. 충직하고 힘센 우티와 귀여운 너구리 미코, 강아지 퍼키, 파랑새 플리도 몰래 배에 오른다. 마침내 도착한 런던, 포카혼타스의 눈에는 모든것이 새롭고 신기하다. 국왕으로 부터 무도회에 초대받은 포카혼타스는 존의 집에서 숙녀로 변신하기위해서 부산을 떤다. 그러는 사이 둘에게는 묘한 감정이 싹트기 시작한다. 드디어 무도회 날. 국왕의 질문에 포카혼타스가 슬기롭게 답변하자 왕은 매우 기뻐한다. 하지만, 저녁식사의 구경거리로 야만적인 행동을 보고 포카혼타스는 왕에게 강력히 항의하다가 감옥에 갇히는 신세가 되고 만다. 그런데, 죽음을 기다리고 있던 포카혼타스의 눈 앞에 기적처럼 존 랄프가 나타난다. 가까스로 탈출하게 되지만, 그녀는 다시 국왕을 찾아간다. 이대로 도망친다면 자신의 부족이 위태로와질 것이기 때문이었다. 영국의원들이 소스라치게 놀란 가운데 법정에 도착한 포카혼타스는 래트클리프이 음모를 밝히고 군대 파견을 중지해 줄 것을 요청한다. 결국 왕도 이에 수긍하지만, 래트클리프와 그의 선단은 이미 항구를 떠난 상태. 포카혼타스 일행은 이들을 저지하기 위해 마지막 결전을 벌인다.

빅터와 토마스는 작은 도시에서 어린 시절 내내 같이 살았음에도 불구하고 그들에겐 공통점이 없다. 하지만 빅터의 아버지인 아놀드가 죽자 빅터와 토마스는 유골을 뿌리기 위한 여행을 시작한다. 이 여행은 빅터와 토마스에겐 정체성을 찾아가는 방법이다. 우정과 새로운 발견으로 점철된 이들의 여정은 기대하지 못했던, 그리고 잊을 수 없는 유쾌한 추억을 안겨줄 것이다.

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?

1607년 젊은 미남 선장 존 스미스는 황금에 눈 먼 총독 랫클리프와 신대륙을 향해 모험을 떠난다. 신대륙에 도착한 존 스미스는 미지의 세계에 대한 정열로 채굴광 부근 숲 속으로 정찰을 나간다. 한편 원주민 추장 포와탄의 딸인 포카혼타스는 아버지가 전사 코코움과 혼인을 맺어주려 하자 인생의 중요한 해답을 찾기 위해 버드나무 할머니를 찾아간다. 그곳에서 포카혼타스는 존 스미스를 만나게 된다. 서로 사랑에 빠진 두 사람의 관계와는 달리 포와탄 부족과 개척자의 관계는 계속 나빠진다. 그러던 어느날 코코움이 개척자에게 사살되고 그 장소에 있던 존 스미스는 부족에게 잡혀가게 되는데...

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.