16 Indigenous-Made Films You Need To See

June is National Indigenous History Month, and there’s no better time to enjoy some Indigenous-made entertainment.

Check out these recommendations of some of the top movies from a new generation of Indigenous filmmakers and actors who tell their own stories — their way.ET Canada Honours National Day Of Truth And Reconciliation With ‘Indigenous Artists & Icons’Directed by by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, this 2001 drama was the first feature film in history to be written, directed and acted entirely in the Inuktitut language.

According to Kunuk, this screen adaptation of an ancient Inuit legend “demystifies the exotic, otherwordly aboriginal stereotype by telling a universal story.”Adapted from a Danish novel, this 2008 feature from directors Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu is the first feature film to be made by Arnait Video Productions, a women’s Inuit film collective.

Set in a small Inuit community in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec in the 1840s, an Inuk elder and her grandson are forced into isolation after most of their community dies from smallpox following an encounter with traders.Michael Greyeyes stars in this acclaimed horror thriller from director Jeff Barnaby, in which the community of a First Nations reserve fend off a zombie apocalypse.

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