Amanda Strong

Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes)

Amanda Strong

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Accompanied by a 10,000-year-old shapeshifter and friend known as Sabe, Biidaaban sets out on a mission to reclaim the ceremonial harvesting of sap from maple trees in an unwelcoming suburban neighborhood in Ontario.

Indigo

Amanda Strong

After years of suppressing her inner child, Indigo, an elderly woman struggles with the cyclical war of the declining imagination via the rise of rationality, to revitalize her spirit before death.

How to Steal a Canoe

Amanda Strong

This film features the story of a young Nishnaabeg woman and an elder Nishnaabeg man rescuing a canoe from a museum and returning it to the lake with which it was meant to be. Witness the act of stealing back the precious parts of us that were always ours in the first place as Indigenous people.

Flood

Amanda Strong

A richly visual film that explores the impact of colonization on Canada's Indigenous peoples in a manner that's both beautifully simple and profoundly moving.

Four Faces of the Moon

Amanda Strong

Norman Fleury, Gail Maurice

Follow the animated journey of an Indigenous photographer as she travels through time. The oral and written history of her family reveals the story — we witness the impact and legacy of the railways, the slaughter of the buffalo and colonial land policies.

Mia'

Amanda Strong, Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.