World Indigenous Peoples Month
“Is it possible to change the world and mend your own wounds at the same time?” So writes Aaju Peter, Greenlandic Inuit lawyer, activist and campaigner for the rights of Indigenous people around the world. It’s an ambitious aim but, if anyone can achieve it, it’s the remarkable Peter. The dynamic, charismatic subject of Lin Alluna’s documentary portrait, Peter opened her life to the camera over a seven-year-period, allowing us to share the lows – the death of her son, her struggles to extricate herself from an abusive relationship – and her journey going forward, which takes her to Canada, Greenland, Sweden, Denmark and the UN headquarters, confronting the insidious influence of colonisation on Indigenous people. It’s a brave and generous undertaking from Peter, which is handled with respect and sensitivity by Alluna.
...affecting in its attention to detail: the distinctive seascape and cut of the land as well as the everyday struggles, personal and political, of the people who live there.
The Song of the Butterflies artfully addresses the importance of collective memory, the legacy of trauma and the family relationships that fuel and shape us even more than we understand. The rubber massacre and its aftermath, which spans generations, can not be ignored or forgotten.
Thomas and Tamara are track stars at their rural New Mexico high school. Like many teenagers, they are torn between...
Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists stand to protect their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope.
Set in the heart of the Amazon, a young Ashéninka boy must face his fears and catch a giant catfish, signaling his journey into manhood.