#indigenous cinema

[stretchbrock]

Bedevil, stylised as beDevil, is a 1993 Australian horror film directed by Tracey Moffatt, the first feature directed by an Aboriginal Australian woman.

The film is a trilogy of surreal ghost stories. Inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child from both her extended Aboriginal and Irish Australian families, Moffatt created a trilogy in which characters are haunted by the past. All three stories are set in Moffatt's highly stylised, hyper-real, hyper-imaginary Australian landscape.

BEDEVIL (1993) dir. TRACEY MOFFATT

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The government wanted to lay claim to the land, mineral, and water rights in the Northwest Passage. So, they had to put Canadian citizens in communities to prove that all belonged to Canada. That's why my mother was relocated. [...]

Everything we got, it's what my parents got, you know, from animals. We live on the land - eat land food and seafood. They were very powerful. When they relocate us to Resolute, all that powerfulness was gone because they were controlled by the government.

EVER DEADLY (2022) dir. Chelsea McMullan, Tanya Tagaq

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beDevil (1993) dir. Tracey Moffatt

[holly-mckenzie]

Where are you from? The government calls it Turning Point Reserve. We call it home.

STELLAR (2022) directed and written by Darlene Naponse

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Kukuli | 1961 | Luis Figueroa Yábar | Peru

"Kukuli, a young Quechua-speaking llama herder, leaves her grandparents in the countryside of Cusco to attend the Feast of Mamacha Carmen in the town of Paucartambo."

[angstystoryteller]

I never have much luck with promoting on here, but it’s worth a shot.

Míyaxwe, my name is Gabz Norte and I’m a Cahuilla and Cupeño filmmaker and av archivist. I’m making a film combining my family’s Super 8 home movies from the 1970s with footage I will also be shooting on Super 8 film. This is a hybrid project for me, creating a film and also preserving and caring for my family’s films while creating an archive. Many of these films are records of reservation life and Indigenous familial experience and I strongly believe they need to be seen.

As you may imagine, this is a costly endeavor and I’m trying to raise money to make this goal happen. I talk a little more about the details in the video in the link.

Shares are greatly appreciated. Á•čama!

[celluloidrainbow]

阿莉芙 | ALIFU, THE PRINCE/SS (2017) dir. Yu-Lin Wang Alifu, a 25 year-old trans woman, works as a hair-dresser in Taipei. Alifu struggles between her dream of getting a sex reafirming operation and her duty to return home and inherit the position of chief of the Paiwan tribe. Alifu's friend Sherry, another trans woman, is the owner of a drag queen bar. For years, she's been in love with the plumber, Wu; even though Sherry has been selflessly treating Wu with kindness, Wu only sees her as his buddy. Meanwhile, Chris, a government worker, lives a dull life. A one-time gig as a drag queen in the bar unexpectedly became his only way to relief stress. He has been performing there ever since. Chris is keeping this gig a secret from his girlfriend, Angie, who works as a piano instructor. (requested by @mynameiseosson, link in title)

[filmhoundsmag]

25 Films We're Excited To Watch at the 76th Cannes Film Festival

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[naneki-maid]

just started season 2 of reservation dogs and it already has me in tears! can’t get through not one episode without tearing up. my heart hurts.

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Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro | Our voice of earth, memory and future (1982) dir. Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva

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Homelands (TJ Cuthand | 2010)

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STELLAR (2022) directed and written by Darlene Naponse

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Embrace of the Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) |  Ciro Guerra | 2015 | Colombia