Metis Movies

  • 2002
    How the Fiddle Flows

    How the Fiddle Flows

    How the Fiddle Flows

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    How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Europeans. The newcomers introduced the fiddle to...

    How the Fiddle Flows
  • 1986
    Mistress Madeleine

    Mistress Madeleine

    Mistress Madeleine

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    Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the...

    Mistress Madeleine
  • 1991
    Women in the Shadows

    Women in the Shadows

    Women in the Shadows

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    Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces the filmmaker's quest for her Native foremothers...

    Women in the Shadows
  • 1968
    Travelling College

    Travelling College

    Travelling College

    01968HD

    Travelling College
  • 2021
    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again

    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again

    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again

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    After marrying a settler, Mary Two-Axe Earley lost her legal status as a First Nations woman. Dedicating her life to activism, she campaigned to have...

    Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again
  • 1969
    Louis Riel

    Louis Riel

    Louis Riel

    01969HD

    Opera by Harry Somers portraying Metis leader Louis Riel and his Northwest Rebellion.

    Louis Riel
  • 1987
    First Journey, Fort William

    First Journey, Fort William

    First Journey, Fort William

    01987HD

    Set in 1815, this is the dramatic story of a child of the fur trade, son of a Native mother and a Scottish-Canadian fur trader. John Mackenzie's...

    First Journey, Fort William
  • 1979
    Canada Vignettes: December Lights

    Canada Vignettes: December Lights

    Canada Vignettes: December Lights

    71979HD

    Animated film of a traditional Franco-Manitoban tale that resembles the story of the first Christmas.

    Canada Vignettes: December Lights
  • 1978
    The Red Dress

    The Red Dress

    The Red Dress

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    Kelly is a Métis man without treaty or hunting rights, struggling to sustain his traditional life. His daughter Theresa longs for a red dress...

    The Red Dress
  • 1961
    L'homme du lac

    L'homme du lac

    L'homme du lac

    01961HD

    L'homme du lac
  • 1980
    Nose and Tina

    Nose and Tina

    Nose and Tina

    01980HD

    The unusual story of Nose and Tina, 2 people in love. He is employed as a brakeman, she as a sex worker.

    Nose and Tina
  • 2015
    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

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    Both a requiem for and an honoring of Canada's First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women, this short film deconstructs the layers of Canadian...

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People
  • 1985
    Canada Vignettes: St. Laurent Pilgrimage

    Canada Vignettes: St. Laurent Pilgrimage

    Canada Vignettes: St. Laurent Pilgrimage

    01985HD

    This very short film from the Canada Vignettes series documents the annual pilgrimage that members of Saskatchewan’s Métis Catholic...

    Canada Vignettes: St. Laurent Pilgrimage