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Shot on unceded, stunning Haida Gwaii and scripted in two Haida dialects, Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown's 19th-century epic is both a landmark work of cinema and a nod to the grand storytelling traditions that lure us to the big screen.

A zombie outbreak has left rural Quebec looking like a butcher's block and, amidst the blood splatter, a pattern has emerged: while the white population is being decimated, the Mi'gmaq people at the Red Crow reserve appear to be immune to the virus.

Beck likes pizza and donuts. And if she has to get up off the couch occasionally to replenish her supply, that's her idea of exercise. When this fitness regimen lands her in hospital her sister and her young son try to persuade her to make some changes. Free screening for National Indigenous People's Day.

Smoke Signals was a game changer for Indigenous Cinema, written, directed, and acted by Indigenous people from Turtle Island. It's a culturally significant film, where Indigenous people felt seen and humanized in a way that wasn't done before. Free screening for National Indigenous People's Day.

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidemic in Vancouver and in the Kainai First Nation. Free event. Co-presented by Story Money Impact.

This essential music doc highlights the untold contribution of Native American artists to rock and pop, with reference to Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Saint Marie, Robbie Robertson and many others.