This is a list of indigenous Canadian films, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit films.
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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3 Indian Tales (3 histoires d'indiens) | Robert Morin | 2014 | Docufiction | [1] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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After the Last River | Victoria Lean | 2015 | Documentary | [2] | |
Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun | Banchi Hanuse | 2023 | Documentary | [3] | |
Amisk | Alanis Obomsawin | 1977 | Documentary | [4] | |
Ancestral Threads | Sean Stiller | 2023 | Short documentary | [5] | |
Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice | Zacharias Kunuk | 2021 | Animated short | [6] | |
Angelique's Isle | Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Michelle Derosier | 2018 | Drama | [7] | |
Angry Inuk | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | 2016 | Documentary | [8] | |
Arctic Song | Germaine Arnattaujuq, Neil Christopher, Louise Flaherty | 2022 | Animated short | [9] | |
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | Zacharias Kunuk | 2001 | Drama | [10] | |
Atikamekw Suns (Soleils Atikamekw) | Chloé Leriche | 2023 | Drama | [11] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Café Daughter | Shelley Niro | 2023 | Drama | Fictionalized account of the childhood of Senator Lillian Dyck | [35] |
Call Me Human (Je m'appelle humain) | Kim O'Bomsawin | 2020 | Documentary | [36] | |
The Canoe | Alanis Obomsawin | 1972 | Documentary | [37] | |
The Cave (?E?anx) | Helen Haig-Brown | 2009 | Science fiction | [38] | |
Chaakapesh | Roger Frappier, Justin Kingsley | 2019 | Documentary | [39] | |
Children | Alanis Obomsawin | 1972 | Documentary | [37] | |
Choke | Michelle Latimer | 2011 | Animated short | [40] | |
Christmas at Moose Factory | Alanis Obomsawin | 1971 | Documentary | [4] | |
Circle of the Sun | Colin Low | 1960 | Documentary | [41] | |
Clearcut | Ryszard Bugajski | 1991 | Thriller | [42] | |
Club Native | Tracey Deer | 2008 | Documentary | [43] | |
Cold Road | Kelvin Redvers | 2024 | Thriller | [44] | |
Colonization Road | Michelle St. John | 2016 | Documentary | [45] | |
The Colony | Jeff Barnaby | 2007 | Drama | [46] | |
Coming Home: Wanna Icipus Kupi | Erica Marie Daniels | 2023 | Documentary | Released in conjunction with the scripted drama series Little Bird | [47] |
Conspiracy of Silence | Francis Mankiewicz | 1991 | Drama | [48] | |
The Corruption of Divine Providence | Jeremy Torrie | 2020 | Horror | [49] | |
Crazywater | Dennis Allen | 2013 | Documentary | [50] | |
Cree Hunters of Mistassini | Boyce Richardson, Tony Ianzelo | 1974 | Documentary | [51] | |
Cry Rock | Banchi Hanuse | 2010 | Documentary | [52] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Dance Me Outside | Bruce McDonald | 1994 | Drama | [53] | |
Deep Inside Clint Star | Clint Alberta | 1999 | Documentary | [54] | |
Le Dep | Sonia Boileau | 2015 | Drama | [55] | |
Divided Loyalties | Mario Azzopardi | 1990 | Drama | [56] | |
Do Not Tell (Ne le dis pas / Nika tshika uiten mishkut) | Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush | 2009 | Short drama | [57] | |
Dreamspeaker | Claude Jutra | 1976 | Drama | [58] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Edge of the Knife | Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown | 2018 | Drama | [59] | |
Elijah | Paul Unwin | 2007 | Comedy-drama | [60] | |
Êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines | Theola Ross | 2020 | Short documentary | [61] | |
Empire of Dirt | Peter Stebbings | 2013 | Drama | [62] | |
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak | John Feeney | 1964 | Short documentary | [63] | |
Etthén Heldeli: Caribou Eaters | Ian Toews | 2018 | Documentary | [64] | |
Ever Deadly | Chelsea McMullan, Tanya Tagaq | 2022 | Documentary | [65] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Falls Around Her | Darlene Naponse | 2018 | Drama | [66] | |
Farming (Lep'cál) | Alanis Obomsawin | 1975 | Documentary | [14] | |
Fast Horse | Alexandra Lazarowich | 2018 | Documentary | [67] | |
File Under Miscellaneous | Jeff Barnaby | 2010 | Short drama | [68] | |
Les Filles du Roi | Corey Payette | 2023 | Musical drama | [69] | |
Finality of Dusk | Madison Thomas | 2023 | Science fiction | [70] | |
Finding Dawn | Christine Welsh | 2006 | Documentary | [71] | |
Fire Song | Adam Garnet Jones | 2015 | Drama | [72] | |
Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | 1979 | Drama | [73] | |
Flood | Amanda Strong | 2017 | Animated short | [74] | |
Footprints (L'Empreinte) | Yvan Dubuc, Carole Poliquin | 2015 | Documentary | [75] | |
For Angela | Daniel Prouty, Nancy Trites Botkin | 1993 | Short drama | [76] | |
For John | Dale Montour | 2003 | Short documentary | [77] | |
Foster Child | Gil Cardinal | 1987 | Documentary | [78] | |
Fractured Land | Fiona Rayher, Damien Gillis | 2015 | Documentary | [79] | |
From Cherry English | Jeff Barnaby | 2004 | Short drama | [80] | |
Frost | Jeremy Ball | 2012 | Short drama | [81] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Gabriel Goes to the City | Alanis Obomsawin | 1979 | Documentary | [4] | |
Gene Boy Came Home | Alanis Obomsawin | 2007 | Documentary | [82] | |
Giant Bear | Neil Christopher, Daniel Gies | 2019 | Animated short | [83] | |
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning | Grant Harvey | 2004 | Horror | [84] | |
God's Lake Narrows | Kevin Lee Burton | 2011 | Documentary | [41] | |
Great River | Matt LeMay | 2010 | Documentary | [85] | |
Grey Owl | Richard Attenborough | 1999 | Drama | [86] | |
The Grizzlies | Miranda de Pencier | 2018 | Drama | [87] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Hank Williams First Nation | Aaron James Sorensen | 2004 | Comedy | [88] | |
Heaven's Floor | Lori Stoll | 2016 | Drama | [89] | |
Hey, Viktor! | Cody Lightning | 2023 | Comedy | [90] | |
Hi-Ho Mistahey! | Alanis Obomsawin | 2013 | Documentary | [82] | |
Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway | Joe Rosenthal | 1903 | Short drama | [91] | |
High Steel | Don Owen | 1965 | Short documentary | [92] | |
History of Manawan, Part 1 | Alanis Obomsawin | 1972 | Documentary | [93] | |
History of Manawan, Part 2 | Alanis Obomsawin | 1972 | Documentary | [93] | |
Hochelaga, Land of Souls | François Girard | 2017 | Drama | [94] | |
Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair | Alanis Obomsawin | 2021 | Documentary | [37] | |
How People Got Fire | Daniel Janke | 2008 | Animated short | [95] | |
How to Build an Igloo | Douglas Wilkinson | 1949 | Short documentary | [96] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Jesse Jams | Trevor Anderson | 2020 | Short documentary | [113] | |
Johnny Greyeyes | Jorge Manzano | 2000 | Drama | [114] | |
Johnny Tootall | Shirley Cheechoo | 2005 | Drama | [115] | |
Jordan River Anderson, the Messenger | Alanis Obomsawin | 2019 | Documentary | [116] | |
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen | Zacharias Kunuk | 2006 | Drama | [117] | |
June in Povungnituk | Alanis Obomsawin | 1980 | Documentary | [82] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kabloonak | Claude Massot | 1994 | Drama | [118] | |
Kajutaijuq: The Spirit That Comes | Scott Brachmayer | 2014 | Short drama | [119] | |
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance | Alanis Obomsawin | 1993 | Documentary | [37] | |
Katshinau (Les Mains sales) | Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush, Julien G. Marcotte | 2023 | Short drama | ||
Kayak to Klemtu | Zoe Leigh Hopkins | 2022 | Drama | [120] | |
Kikkik | Ole Gjerstad | 2000 (English) 2002 (Inuktitut) |
Documentary | [121] | |
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | 2021 | Documentary | [122] | |
Kissed by Lightning | Shelley Niro | 2009 | Drama | [123] | |
Kivitoo: What They Thought of Us | Zacharias Kunuk | 2018 | Documentary | [124] | |
The Klabona Keepers | Tamo Campos, Jasper Snow-Rosen | 2022 | Documentary | [125] | |
Koneline: Our Land Beautiful | Nettie Wild | 2016 | Documentary | [126] | |
Kuessipan | Myriam Verreault | 2019 | Drama | [127] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Legend of Sarila | Nancy Florence Savard | 2013 | Animated | [128] | |
Lelum' | Asia Youngman | 2017 | Short documentary | [129] | |
The Lesser Blessed | Anita Doron | 2012 | Drama | [130] | |
The Living Stone | John Feeney | 1958 | Short documentary | [96] | |
Living With Giants | Aude Leroux-Lévesque, Sébastien Rist | 2016 | Documentary | [131] | |
The Loon's Necklace | F. R. Crawley | 1948 | Short drama | [132] | |
Luk'Luk'I | Wayne Wapeemukwa | 2017 | Drama | [133] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maïna | Michel Poulette | 2013 | Drama | [134] | |
Map of the Human Heart | Vincent Ward | 1992 | Drama | [135] | |
Martha of the North | Marquise Lepage | 2009 | Documentary | [96] | |
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics | Terril Calder | 2021 | Animated short | [136] | |
Mesnak | Yves Sioui Durand | 2011 | Drama | [137] | |
Mission of Fear (Astataïon, ou Le Festin des morts) | Fernand Dansereau | 1965 | Drama | [138] | |
Moccasin Flats: Redemption | Rob W. King | 2008 | Drama | [139] | |
Mohawk Girls | Tracey Deer | 2005 | Documentary | Later spun off into a television series | [140] |
Monkey Beach | Loretta Todd | 2020 | Drama | [141] | |
MONSTR | Tank Standing Buffalo | 2023 | Animated short | [142] | |
Moose Call | Alanis Obomsawin | 1972 | Documentary | [37] | |
Mother of Many Children | Alanis Obomsawin | 1977 | Documentary | [4] | |
Mount Currie Summer Camp | Alanis Obomsawin | 1975 | Documentary | [37] | |
My Favourite Food Is Indian Tacos, My Favourite Drink Is Iced Tea and My Favourite Thing Is Drumming | Derius Matchewan | 2019 | Short | [143] | |
My Indian Name | Abraham Côté | 2022 | Documentary | [144] | |
My Name Is Kahentiiosta | Alanis Obomsawin | 1995 | Documentary | [4] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nahanni: River of Forgiveness | Geoff Bowie | 2019 | Documentary | [145] | |
Nalujuk Night | Jennie Williams | 2021 | Short documentary | [146] | |
The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre) | Benoît Pilon | 2008 | Drama | [147] | |
Night Raiders | Danis Goulet | 2021 | Science fiction | [148] | |
Nikamowin (Song) | Kevin Lee Burton | 2007 | Short documentary | [149] | |
Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up | Tasha Hubbard | 2019 | Documentary | [150] | |
No Address | Alanis Obomsawin | 1988 | Documentary | [37] | |
North Mountain | Bretten Hannam | 2015 | Action thriller | [151] | |
Nouveau Québec | Sarah Fortin | 2021 | Drama | [152] | |
Now Is the Time | Christopher Auchter | 2019 | Short documentary | [153] | |
Nuxalk Radio | Banchi Hanuse | 2020 | Documentary | [154] | |
N'xaxaitkw | Asia Youngman | 2022 | Short drama | [155] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Okpik's Dream | Laura Rietveld | 2015 | Documentary | [156] | |
Old Crow | Alanis Obomsawin | 1979 | Documentary | [4] | |
On the Corner | Nathaniel Geary | 2003 | Drama | [157] | |
On the Trail of the Far Fur Country | Kevin Nikkel | 2014 | Documentary | [158] | |
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk | Zacharias Kunuk | 2019 | Drama | [159] | |
One of Ours | Yasmine Mathurin | 2021 | Documentary | [160] | |
Our Nationhood | Alanis Obomsawin | 2003 | Documentary | [161] | |
Our People Will Be Healed | Alanis Obomsawin | 2017 | Documentary | [37] | |
Out in the Cold | Colleen Murphy | 2008 | Drama | [162] | |
The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend | Caroline Leaf | 1974 | Animated short | [163] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Partridge | Alanis Obomsawin | 1972 | Documentary | ||
The Pass System | Alex Williams | 2015 | Documentary | [164] | |
Passage | John Walker | 2008 | Documentary | [165] | |
People of a Feather | Joel Heath | 2011 | Documentary | [166] | |
The People of the Kattawapiskak River | Alanis Obomsawin | 2012 | Documentary | [82] | |
A Place Between: The Story of an Adoption | Curtis Kaltenbaugh | 2007 | Documentary | [167] | |
Portraits from a Fire | Trevor Mack | 2021 | Comedy-drama | [168] | |
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place | Alanis Obomsawin | 1987 | Documentary | [4] | |
Power | Magnus Isacsson | 1996 | Documentary | [169] | |
The Pretendians | Drew Hayden Taylor, Paul Kemp | 2022 | Documentary | [170] | |
Puberty, Part 1 | Alanis Obomsawin | 1975 | Documentary | [37] | |
Puberty, Part 2 | Alanis Obomsawin | 1975 | Documentary | [37] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny | Mark Sandiford, Zebedee Nungak | 2006 | Documentary | [171] | |
Qimmit, a Clash of Two Truths | Joelie Sanguya, Ole Gjerstad | 2010 | Documentary | [96] | |
Québékoisie | Mélanie Carrier, Olivier Higgins | 2013 | Documentary | [172] | |
Québexit | Joshua Demers | 2020 | Comedy | [173] | |
Quiet Killing (Ce silence qui tue) | Kim O'Bomsawin | 2018 | Documentary | [174] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | 2021 | Experimental, drama | [192] | |
Salmon (Tsúqwaoz') | Alanis Obomsawin | 1975 | Documentary | [14] | |
Savage | Lisa Jackson | 2009 | Short drama | [193] | |
SAVJ | Tank Standing Buffalo | 2022 | Animated short | [194] | |
Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | 2021 | Drama | [195] | |
The Scattering of Man (DƏNE YI’INJETL) | Luke Gleeson | 2021 | Documentary | [196] | |
Searchers (Maliglutit) | Zacharias Kunuk | 2016 | Drama | [197] | |
Secret Path | Gord Downie | 2016 | Animated | [198] | |
Sigwan | Alanis Obomsawin | 2005 | Short drama | [37] | |
Sirmilik | Zacharias Kunuk | 2011 | Short documentary | [199] | |
Snip | Terril Calder | 2016 | Animated short | [200] | |
Snowshoes | Alanis Obomsawin | 2005 | Documentary | [37] | |
Sol | Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Susan Avingaq | 2014 | Documentary | [201] | |
Spirit to Soar | Tanya Talaga, Michelle Derosier | 2021 | Documentary | [202] | |
Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man | Alanis Obomsawin | 1997 | Documentary | [203] | |
Standing Alone | Colin Low | 1982 | Documentary | [41] | |
Stellar | Darlene Naponse | 2022 | Drama | [204] | |
Stryker | Noam Gonick | 2004 | Drama | [205] | |
The Sun at Midnight | Kirsten Carthew | 2016 | Drama | [206] | |
Survivors Rowe | Daniel Roher | 2015 | Documentary | [207] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tautuktavuk (What We See) | Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk | 2023 | Drama | ||
There Are No Fakes | Jamie Kastner | 2019 | Documentary | [208] | |
There Is a House Here | Alan Zweig | 2017 | Documentary | [209] | |
This Ink Runs Deep | Asia Youngman | 2019 | Short documentary | [210] | |
This Place | V. T. Nayani | 2022 | Drama | [211] | |
This River | Katherena Vermette | 2016 | Short documentary | [212] | |
This Was the Time | Eugene Boyko | 1970 | Short documentary | [213] | |
Those Damned Savages (Les maudits sauvages) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | 1971 | Drama | [214] | |
Those Who Come, Will Hear (Ceux qui viendront, l'entendront) | Simon Plouffe | 2018 | Documentary | [215] | |
Three Feathers | Carla Ulrich | 2018 | Drama | [216] | |
Three Thousand | Asinnajaq | 2017 | Short documentary | [217] | |
Throat Singing in Kangirsuk (Katatjatuuk Kangirsumi) | Eva Kaukai, Manon Chamberland | 2019 | Short documentary | [218] | |
Throat Song | Miranda de Pencier | 2011 | Short drama | [219] | |
Through Black Spruce | Don McKellar | 2018 | Drama | [220] | |
Thunder Drum (Mémoire battante) | Arthur Lamothe | 1983 | Documentary | [221] | |
Tia and Piujuq | Lucy Tulugarjuk | 2018 | Children's drama | [222] | |
Tkaronto | Shane Belcourt | 2007 | Drama | [223] | |
Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole | Gil Cardinal | 2003 | Short documentary | [77] | |
Totem: Return and Renewal | Gil Cardinal | 2007 | Short documentary | Sequel to the 2003 film | [224] |
Trial at Fortitude Bay | Vic Sarin | 1994 | Drama | [225] | |
Trick or Treaty? | Alanis Obomsawin | 2014 | Documentary | [82] | |
Trouble in the Garden | Roz Owen | 2018 | Drama | [226] | |
Tshiuetin | Caroline Monnet | 2016 | Short documentary | [227] | |
Tuktuq | Robin Aubert | 2016 | Docufiction | [228] | |
Twice Colonized | Lin Alluna | 2023 | Documentary | Canada-Denmark-Greenland coproduction | [229] |
Two Indians Talking | Sara McIntyre | 2010 | Comedy-drama | [230] | |
Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things | Mark Kenneth Woods, Michael Yerxa | 2016 | Documentary | [231] | |
Two Worlds Colliding | Tasha Hubbard | 2004 | Documentary | [232] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories | multiple | 2011 | multi-film compilation | [96] | |
Unnatural & Accidental | Carl Bessai | 2006 | Drama | [233] | |
Utshimassits: Place of the Boss | John Walker | 1996 | Documentary | [234] | |
Uulx: The Scratcher | Banchi Hanuse | 2015 | Documentary | [235] | |
Uvanga | Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Ivalu | 2013 | Drama | [236] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vanishing Point | Stephen A. Smith, Julia Szucs | 2012 | Documentary | [237] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
WaaPaKe | Jules Arita Koostachin | 2023 | Documentary | [238] | |
Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises | Alanis Obomsawin | 2006 | Documentary | [82] | |
Walker | Alanis Obomsawin | 1992 | Documentary | [82] | |
Wapawekka | Danis Goulet | 2010 | Short drama | [239] | |
Waseskun | Steve Patry | 2016 | Documentary | [240] | |
We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice | Alanis Obomsawin | 2016 | Documentary | [82] | |
We Know the Truth: Stories to Inspire Reconciliation | Meagan Fiddler, Bertram Schneider | 2021 | Documentary | [241] | |
We Were Children | Tim Wolochatiuk | 2012 | Documentary | [242] | |
When All the Leaves Are Gone | Alanis Obomsawin | 2010 | Short drama | [37] | |
Where the Spirit Lives | Bruce Pittman | 1989 | Drama | [243] | |
The White Dawn | Philip Kaufman | 1974 | Drama | [244] | |
Wild Rice Harvest Kenora | Alanis Obomsawin | 1979 | Documentary | [82] | |
Wildhood | Bretten Hannam | 2021 | Drama | [245] | |
Windigo | Robert Morin | 1994 | Drama | [246] | |
Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace | Heather Hatch | 2021 | Documentary | [247] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Xusum | Alanis Obomsawin | 1975 | Documentary | [14] |
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yintah | Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano | 2024 | Documentary | [248] | |
You Are on Indian Land | Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell | 1969 | Documentary | [249] |