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Finding Dawn
Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh brings us a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy—the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The film takes a journey into the heart of Indigenous women’s experience, from Vancouver’s skid row, down the Highway of Tears in northern BC, and on to…
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First Stories – Two Spirited
Sharon A. Desjarlais has a message of hope and healing not only for two-spirit people, but for all Indigenous people. This film describes how colonial views have impacted how each of our nations engage and view gender roles and sexual identities, especially in the context of healing and helping our communities and each other.
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For Love
The film provides its watchers a glimpse into the injustices inflicted on Indigenous communities through the Canadian Child Welfare System through first-hand narratives of survivors. The film details the horrors of the past and reveals how Indigenous communities are taking back jurisdictional control of their children in order to ensure that their unique and diverse…
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Foster Child
Foster Child is a documentary that follows Mr. Cardinal as he searches for his family roots as a fostered child, looking for his birth family and his Indigenous identity. The film is compelling, beautiful and heartbreaking.
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Freedom Road Series
Freedom Road is a five-part documentary series that tells the inspiring story of Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe First Nation and their battle to build a road, after their community was forcibly relocated and cut off from the mainland over 100 years ago, so that water could be diverted to the city of Winnipeg.
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Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin retells the story of how a national campaign called Shannon’s Dream not only successfully advocated for equitable access to culturally safe education systems for Indigenous children but led to a larger systemic initiative being adopted by the United Nations in Geneva.
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Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair
As the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Murray Sinclair was a key figure in raising global awareness of the atrocities of Canada’s residential school system. With determination, wisdom and kindness, Senator Sinclair remains steadfast in his belief that the path to actual reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people requires understanding and accepting…
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Inconvenient Indian
In this time of radical change and essential re-examination, Inconvenient Indian brings to life Thomas King’s brilliant dismantling of North America’s colonial narrative, reframing this history with the powerful voices of those continuing the tradition of Indigenous resistance. Please note: This film was temporarily withdrawn from active distribution after the director’s Indigenous identity was called…
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Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese’s award-winning novel comes to life in this film and tells the story of Saul Indian Horse, who at the young age of eight, was taken from his family and placed in a Catholic residential school. To cope with the trauma by escaping his reality living in the residential school, Saul masters his hockey-playing…
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Johnny Greyeyes
An American Indian woman falls in love with another woman while being confined to prison, just as her brother is about to experience a similar fate due to his robbery schemes. In this film, we get insight into the judicial system, trauma, and love that is not gendered.
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.