#Indigenous movies

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The Secret Nation (La Nación Clandestina) | Jorge Sanjinés | 1989 | Bolivia

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|| Wildhood (2021) || 5/5🌟 || Drama/Romance || "In a rural East Coast trailer park, Link lives with his toxic father and younger half brother, Travis. When Link discovers his Mi'kmaw mother could still be alive, it lights a flame as the siblings embark on a quest for a better life. On the road, they meet Pasmay, a pow wow dancer drawn to Link. As the boys journey across Mi'kma'ki, Link finds community, identity and love in the land where he belongs."

Content Warnings: Police Violence, Child Abuse, Homophobia, Dead Animal, Sex Scene, Nudity, F-Slur, D-Slur.

The beginning of the movie is pretty intense and there's child abuse so be careful going in but it is a happy ending.

This was just absolutely beautiful. Definitely a new favorite.

Queer Film everyday of June 21/30 🏳️‍🌈

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There are an irritating number of films about bland white people doing bland white people things. Can anyone recommend any slice-of-life type movies with persons of color that aren't about celebrities or crime or some stereotypical grand adventure? Just non-white people existing? 🤔🤔🤔

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YouTube short video recommending a few movies bases with Indigenous themes

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Indigenous Horror Films

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a warning to other native folks who may be interested in the barbie movie

there is a scene in which the patriarchys effect on the barbies is directly compared to the effect of smallpox on indigenous peoples. if this makes you uncomfortable as it did me do not feel obligated to watch it. a lot of white people are pressuring native people to watch and see for themselves if it makes them uncomfortable. do not feel that you have to if you think it will negatively impact you. we know what hurts us.

and please note i am not attacking the movie or calling the writers terrible, i am not commanding you dont see the movie. this is a warning post for NATIVE FOLKS who are fully capable of making their own decisions.

[girl-mercury]

i just went to see furiosa, it was fun as ridiculous car chases tend to be (i will watch fast and furious 1–98) and had good worldbuilding, but there was something i was wondering the whole time

it’s made very clear that this takes place specifically in central australia after the nuclear apocalypse; it’s specifically about conflict between several violent groups attempting to hold control over scarce resources. white guys, almost exclusively. but where are the aboriginal people? indigenous people have been in australia for a very long time, and after surviving colonization i’m honestly not sure another apocalypse is going to be that overwhelming

so what i’m wondering is, assuming they’re there but not seen while the car enthusiasts battle it out, is this like a donner party situation? are there indigenous people watching these idiots explode themselves over food and water and gas from behind a rock and going “you dumb pieces of shit. if you could put down the guns for a second we’d show you where the food is. or… no? you’re just going to eat each other instead? cool cool cool. have fun. yikes.”

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Anck Su Namun / Meela Nais (portrayed by Patricia Velásquez)

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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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Lily Gladstone photographed by Tina Tyrell for Interview Magazine, 2023.

[pand1on]

i wish i could articulate my frustration with the knuckles series/scu's handling of knuckles' heritage. i just hope that people recognized that stupid 'joke' where wade couldn't pronounce pachacamac's name as the anti-Indigenous racism it was

[jasminejarss]

The Unknown Country (2022) dir. Morrisa Maltz

[alpaca-clouds]

Understanding Princess Mononoke

People on twitter have asked me to write this up, after speaking just a bit about it on the bird plattform.

So, recently I rewatched Princess Mononoke and talked about it with a friend, who is Japanese with a degree in Japanese history. And I think some of it was rather interesting.

Some of you might already know this. But others might not. So just endulge me for a moment.

Let me start with Ashitaka. The movie does mention that he is Emishi - but many people are not aware, what this means.

See, Japan had quite a lot of indigenous cultures (I will talk more about those tomorrow). Most might know the Ainu, as they are still around today. Fewer might know about the Ryukyuan people of Okinawa, who are also still around. But there are several indigenous people, who have once lived in Japan, but whose culture hence had become instinct. The Emishi are one of them. They lived in Northern Honshu and their culture disappeared around the 10th century.

The movie, of course, takes place in the late 14th century, which is why the monk notes, that he knows what Ashitaka is, but will keep it secret. The idea is that Ashtakas little village had stayed secret to avoid being destroyed. As such Ashitaka has a different relation to the nature and the nature spirits than the other characters of the movie, who are to engrossed in the mainly Buddhist culture.

Another thing that has to be addressed is Iron Town and Lady Eboshi's people. According to the official Japanese material to the movie, Lady Eboshi once was a prostitute herself, who happened to get power by getting taken to China. Which is why she is in possession of the Chinese gun technology. She then decided to use that to allow herself power - but not entirely out of selfish reasons. Because she, of course, takes in untouchables. Japan, to this day, has an untouchable caste. Which are people who work certain "dirty" jobs or sicknesses. Most of the women in Iron Town are prostitutes who Eboshi had bought free from their brothels. And she wants to have a town where those people can live good lives.

Because of this she has to hope for the support of the Emperor, as the Samurai lords in the surrounding areas do not want her there.

Which brings me to the finale and killing the god. Here is a thing that you have to understand of Japanese history. The original indigenous people of Japan believed in nature spirits, that at times were actually gods. Especially mountain gods. As Buddhism spread (again, something I will talk about more tomorrow) the upper class went out to kill the gods.

Old Japanese history will talk about people killing gods in the same way, as we talk about St. Patrick and the snakes of Ireland. As if it has really happened.

And that is something that Eboshi tries to do. It is killing the old god, but more than that: killing the old culture.

One of the central conflicts the movie shows is, that the nature spirits are loosing their self-awareness. That they revert to normal animals. Because the indigenous culture that revered the nature spirits is fading away.

Which then is, why Ashitaka, who comes from one of those indigenous cultures, is the main character of the movie. Because he still has this connection to the nature spirit, that the other people have lost.

Yes, the movie is very solarpunk in hindsight. But it also understands what it means to loose connection to nature.

And I find that really beautiful.

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Lily Gladstone photographed by Romona Rosales, interview in Empire Magazine Summer 24 edition (May 9)

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