Tantoo Cardinal

1920년대 오클라호마주 오세이지 부족 땅에서 석유가 발견된 후, 부족 사람들이 한 명씩 죽어 나가자 FBI가 미스터리를 풀기 위해 나선다.

In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a confrontation gone terribly wrong. With President Taft coming to the area, the local sheriff leads two Native American trackers seeking justice for their “murdered” tribal leader.

교활한 악마 형제 웬델 과 와일드 는 어두운 과거와 죄책감으로 가득한 10대 소녀 캣 엘리엇에게 산 자들의 세상으로 자신들을 소환해 달라고 도움을 청한다. 그러나 캣이 두 형제에게 요구한 대가는 다른 무엇과도 비교할 수 없는 놀랍도록 기괴하고 코믹한 모험으로 이어져, 삶과 죽음의 법칙을 무시하는 판타지가 펼쳐진다.

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 is a dramatic adventure that begins when Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian Arctic, is caught in an ambush in Panjwayi, Afghanistan. His capture and interrogation by a Taliban Commander releases a cache of memories connected to the love and death of his Inuit cousin, Asana, and binds him closer to a Pashtun family as they escape across treacherous landscapes and through a blizzard that becomes their key to survival.

In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.

캐나다 온타리오주의 원주민 마을 무소니에는 엄마(애니 버드), 삼촌(윌), 쌍둥이 자매(수잔, 애니) 가족이 살고 있다. 어느 날 경찰이 찾아와 몇 해 전 남자 친구 거스와 함께 집을 나간 수잔이 토론토에서 실종됐다는 소식을 전한다. 애니는 내키지 않았지만 수잔을 찾아나서고 그 과정에서 수잔이 토론토에서 어떻게 살았는지 하나하나 알아가게 되는데... 수잔은 모델로 나름 성공했으나 약물 중독이었고 돈 관리가 형편없었다. 그러다 남자친구 거스와 함께 마약상 대니의 마약을 다량 훔쳐 달아났고 그로 인해 범죄 조직의 표적이 되었던 것이다. 결국 마약상이 수잔을 잡기 위해 애니의 집을 찾아간다.

알래스카의 오지 마을. 늑대가 나타나고 한 소년이 사라진다. 아이 엄마의 부탁으로 늑대를 찾아 나서는 동물 전문가 코어. 그가 미스터리로 가득 찬 미궁으로 들어간다.

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.

보름달이 뜬 어느 날 밤, 발자국마저 사라지는 고요한 설원 위를 맨발로 달리던 한 소녀가 피를 토하며 죽는다. 안간힘을 쓰며 뛰어가던 그녀가 결국 피를 토하며 쓰러져 죽어 있는 모습을 사냥꾼 코리(제레미 레너)가 발견한다. 피해자는 그의 친구의 딸. 신입 FBI요원 제인(엘리자베스 올슨)이 사건 담당자로 그곳에 도착하지만 범인이 남긴 증거는 눈보라에 휩싸여 점점 사라지고, 수사는 난항을 겪는다. 3년 전, 윈드 리버에서 벌어진 살인 사건과의 유사점을 발견한 코리가 수사에 공조하면서 두 사람은 범인의 그림자에 빠른 속도로 접근하는데...

어느 날 새벽 알 수 없는 괴한들에게 납치 당한 헨튼과 그의 여자친구는 이상한 연구소에 갇혀 반항하다가 총에 맞게 된다. 그리고 눈을 떠보니 납치 당하기 바로 전 아침, 그렇게 같은 시간이 반복되는 타임 루프에 갇힌 렌튼은 반복되는 시간이 자신이 개발한 무한동력기인 아크(ARQ) 때문에 생긴 문제임을 깨닫게 되는데...

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.

한국계 미국인인 ‘현재’는 부유하지는 않지만 부모와 함께 행복하게 사는 평범한 10대 소녀이다. 어느 날 친구와 함께 간 술집에서 만난 한 남자에게 집에 데려다 주겠다는 꾀임에 빠져 납치를 당하게 된다. ‘현재’는 전문적으로 소녀들을 납치하는 인신매매단에 의해 미국에서 유일하게 매춘이 합법화 되어 있는 네바다 주에 있는 한 매춘굴로 끌려가게 된다. 에덴이라는 새로운 이름이 지어진 그녀는 심엄한 감시 속에 매일 생전 처음 보는 낯선 남자들에게 유린 당하는 지옥 같은 생활을 하게 된다. 몇 번의 탈출을 시도 하지만 실패하는 에덴, 어느덧 세월이 흘러 자신과 같이 끌려온 동료와 함께 이 생활에 적응을 해가기 시작한다. 인신매매단의 감시자들은 고분고분해진 에덴을 믿기 시작하고 그녀에게 자신들의 일을 시키기 시작한다. 에덴을 일단 살기 위해 그들에게 협조 하면서 감시의 느슨함을 틈타 또 다시 탈출의 기회를 노리게 되는데... 미국에서 아직도 자행되고 있는 인신매매단의 실체를 고발한 은 실제로 벌어진 사건을 바탕으로 제작 되었다.

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.

Prudence MacIntyre, the 'New York home tips' TV show presenter, is sent on holiday, by studio boss Jeffrey Symcox, to a secluded lodge in Tassajero, Wyoming. The lodge was built on the last remnant of Indian land preserved by the Andrews family. Her celebrity status and sassy charm help quickly getting acquainted with local notables, including French heir Jean Phillipe Andrews, his land trust lawyer Doug Craig and police detective Eddie Duncan. Pru is with lodge caretaker Ruth Vigil when she discovers her estranged son JR is missing from his home after leaving a message. Pru finds blood, and although it's not JR's insists he must have been murdered. After her research assent, a computer whiz with a minor criminal record, joins her, and they soon get in danger snooping ahead of the incredulous authorities to discover several linked crimes.

Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol poisoning, Sydney's desperate single mother sends her off to the country to live with her father, Ben, and his new pregnant wife, Emma. Sydney misses her boyfriend, her city life and doesn't get on with her dad or stepmom. Slowly she starts to settle in as she makes friends with Jess, a local girl whose mother died of cancer. Sydney makes a couple of mistakes but after her grandfather's death the extended family start to heal.

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

In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, Grandpa tells mysterious Indian tales of love, friendship and magic.

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).

A con man and a young woman travel across the country, first in search of a man he knows, and then in search of a woman she knows.

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.

When sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer is assigned to go to British Columbia to write a frivolous piece on the fishing industry, she butts heads with local fisherman and notorious loner, John Daly. While she thrives on the fast-paced life of Manhattan, he loathes pretension and could go days without speaking to anyone. But when the two are caught in a perilous situation, they are forced to put aside their pettiness and re-examine their lives. With external factors stripped away, they begin to fall in love. Ultimately, Edith must decide between staying in the glamorous world she has always cherished or leaving it all behind for a chance at love.

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.

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.

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.

대공황이 한창이던 1930년대, 테네시주의 조그만 마을인 스모키 마운틴에 리틀 트리(Little Tree: 조셉 애쉬톤 분)라는 소년이 찾아 온다. 체로키 인디언 혼혈인 그는 부모님을 잃고 의지할 곳을 찾아 이곳에 온 것이다. 시골 오두막에서 외롭게 살아가던 할아버지(Granpa: 제임스 크롬웰 분)와 할머니(Granma: 탠투 카디날 분)는 그에게 자연과 함께 호흡하고, 더불어 살아가는 방식을 가르친다. 그러던 어느 날 방울뱀에 물려 사경을 헤매던 할아버지를 보며 리틀 트리는 육신의 덧없음과 영혼의 영원함을 배우기도 한다. 할머니의 자극한 간호 덕에 할아버지는 마침내 건강을 되찾는다. 하지만 곧 인디언 혼혈이라는 이유로 리틀 트리는 혼혈아들을 위한 교육기관에 강제로 입학되고, 인종 차별적인 체벌이 심한 그곳에서 이름마저 조슈아로 바뀐 채 하루하루를 힘겹게 살아간다. 한편 사랑하는 손자와 강제로 헤어져야만 했던 할아버지는 그리움에 지쳐가고 마침내 리틀 트리를 대려오기로 마음먹는다.

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.

This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the Shawnee indians, tries to do something. He plans a big indian state, and tries to win the English settlers over to this plan...

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

대령 러드로우는 퇴역 후 알프레드, 트리스탄, 새뮤얼이라는 삼형제와 몬타나에서 살고 있다. 첫째인 알프레드는 성실하고 부지런한 모범생이었고, 둘째인 트리스탄은 강한 성격과 정렬적이며 남성적인 매력을 가지고 있었고, 막내 새뮤얼은 밝은 청년이었다.어느날 막내 새뮤얼은 매력적인 약혼녀 수산나를 고향으로 데리고 온다. 수산나는 보는 순간 알프레드와 트리스탄 역시 그녀에게 반해버린다. 그러나 제1차 세계대전이 발발해 세 형제는 모두 전쟁에 참가하나 새뮤얼은 적군의 총에 맞아 어이 없이 목슴을 잃게 되고, 알프레드는 불구가 된다. 동생을 지키지 못했다는 죄책감에 트리스탄은 바다로 떠나버린다. 그 후 알프레드와 수산나는 서로 사랑하게 되지만 어느날 트리스탄이 고향에 돌아오게 되고...

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.

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't bury her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with Roe.

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.

McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.

1634년 북미 예수회의 선교사인 라포그 신부(Laforgue: 로데어 브루튜 분)는 인디언들과 함께 강 상류에 있는 휴런까지 가기 위해 여행길에 오른다. 인디언들은 라포그가 항상 검은 사제복을 입고 있기 때문에 그를 블랙로브라 부른다. 험한 여행길을 가는 도중 블랙로브를 악마라고 믿는 무리들로 인해 온갖 고난을 겪게 되고, 잔인한 이로쿠아족들의 습격과 질병등도 그들의 어려움을 가중시킨다. 온갖 고초끝에 가까스로 휴런에 이르나 그곳에 또 다시 질병이 휩쓸고 가고 결국 마지막으로 남아있던 신부까지 죽음을 맞이한다. 그러나 그의 숭고한 정신이 인디언 마을에 전달되고 휴런 마을의 인디언들은 모두 세례를 받기로 한다.

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

존 던버(케빈 코스트너)는 연합군의 리더로 시민 전쟁에서 승리한 영웅이다. 그는 미국 개척지에서 근무하길 원했으나 받아들여지지 않았다. 어느 날 막사 근처를 맴도는 늑대 한 마리를 발견한 그는 드디어 늑대와 친해져 모닥불 아래서 함께 춤을 출 수 있을 정도가 된다. 그러던 어느날 그는 인디언 종족을 만나게 되는데, 거기서 추장의 딸인 주먹쥐고 일어서와 사랑에 빠진다. 인디언 땅을 계속해서 점령하려는 연합군에 맞서 싸우면서 존 던버는 인디언 종족과 더욱 친해지고, 문명이라는 이름으로 파괴를 일삼는 연합군에 맞선다.

One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't supposed to fight back....

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.

록키산의 사냥꾼 존슨(Albert Johnson: 찰스 브론슨 분)은 다 죽어가는 투견을 헐값에 사들인 것이 악연이 되어 투견패들과 총격전을 벌이다가 그 중 한 명을 살해한다. 제보를 받은 카나다 산악 경찰대 소속의 밀른 상사(Sgt. Edgar Millen: 리 마빈 분)는 존슨을 출두시켜 사건의 진위를 밝히려 한다. 그러나 약자에게는 더욱 냉혹한 사회의 생리를 이미 체험한 존슨은 자신이 살인 누명을 벗을 수 없음을 간파하고 탈출을 결심한다. 이로부터 영하 40도씨를 밑도는 험준한 록키 산맥을 가로지르는 장장 48일간의 대추격전이 시작된다. 존슨의 탈출 행각이 집요해질 수록 그의 목에는 거액의 현상금이 붙고, 부하까지 잃게 된 밀른은 추격의 고삐를 죄어 온다. 굶주림과 수면 부족의 기사 상태에서 알라스카 국경에 다다른 존슨. 그는 끈질긴 추적자 밀른을 경외스러움으로 돌아보고, 밀른은 사정거리 안에 들어온 존슨을 향해 총구를 겨눈다.

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.