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8th Fire
8th Fire is a special four-part series that highlights the 500-year-old relationship with Indigenous peoples—a relationship still mired in colonialism, conflict, and denial.
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Angry Inuk
A new generation of Inuit advocates campaign to defend the seal hunt as a means to a sustainable livelihood. Armed with social media and their own sense of humour and justice, this group is bringing its own voice into the conversation and presenting themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of…
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AWAKE. A Dream from Standing Rock
AWAKE tells the dramatic story of the historic native-led peaceful resistance at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Tens of thousands of people opposed the construction of the 3.7 billion dollar Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) which was proposed to be built on sovereign Lakota land, under the Missouri River, the only water source…
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Beans
A coming-of-age story of a young girl during the Oka Crisis of 1990, Beans is a bright and promising student trying to find her place in her community, but she faces a number of challenges. In addition to the complex situations so characteristic of adolescence, she encounters the intricacies of using her voice for activism,…
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Big Eden
Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York artist who returns to the town of his childhood to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. Back in…
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Bones of Crows
Bones of Crows sheds light on the residential school system and the ongoing generational fights against systemic starvation, racism, and trauma experiences as told through the lens of a Cree woman, Aline Spears.
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Canadians Have Been Breaking Their Promises to Indigenous People
Filmmaker Tasha Hubbard narrates a history of Indigenous peoples in the Prairies and their relationship with the government, focusing on the events of the late nineteenth century.
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Colonization Road
Ryan McMahon, an Anishinaabe comedian, travels across Ontario, learning about colonization roads and the ways in which they have dispossessed Indigenous people of land and access to traditional territories while creating space for settlers in the colonial experiment that has become Canada.
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Crazywater
This feature-length documentary from Inuvialuit filmmaker Dennis Allen is an emotional and revealing exploration of addiction among Indigenous people in Canada. Five Indigenous Canadians bravely discuss their stories of substance abuse and their deep commitment to their traditional culture to maintain their sobriety.
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Deep Inside Clint Star
This film highlights how humour can be a source of resistance within Indigenous communities. We see the hilarious and bittersweet journey of Clint Star, who reconnects with former Indigenous friends, speaking about love, abuse, sex, life and experiences of oppression of Indigenous bodies for over 500 years.
Land Acknowledgement
The UBC School of Social Work acknowledges that we are situated on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) People.