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- Sanna escapes being sacrificed and meets Tara. Together, they live in a seaside tribe that worships the Sun God and survive the dangers of the creatures from the Mesozoic Era.
- In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.
- Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties.
- Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister's loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.
- An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.
- After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men."
- In the Australian Outback, two estranged brothers discover old secrets and family lies. As their friends start to go missing they fear they are being stalked by someone or something.
- Luku Ngarra is an unflinching, indigenous Australian Aboriginal funded documentary on the history and culture of Arnhem Land leading up to the present day, seen through the eyes of one of Australia's most respected Indigenous elders and traditional lawmen, the Reverned Doctor Djiniyini Gondarra OAM. Set mainly in the remote community of Elcho Island, the film is a timely challenge to the dominant mainstream paradigm that has failed to recognise the true value and importance of traditional Aboriginal law and culture for the wellbeing of remote communities.
- In the stark desert landscape of the Kalahari a troubled police officer battles to keep her small town from being ripped apart by a horrific murder and the ghosts from a colonial past.
- The story of a father's desperate struggle to reunite his estranged family over the course of a single afternoon.
- In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. This transporting drama underscores the power of imagination in surviving, and ultimately overcoming, the catastrophe of war.
- When a couple of low life thugs get away from a heist they just pulled they never think about the outcome after stashing there money in the woods only to find a woodsman who will do anything to kill and disappear into the night.
- A Shipibo boy is raised by his grandparents in direct contact with the Amazon forest and its inhabitants, whom he respects and considered part of their social environment. Growing up and coming into contact with urban life, the child denies his culture to avoid the discrimination, but, in the end, his vital roots lead him to reconnect with the forest and to reconcile with his ancient traditions.
- Docu-drama outlining the culture clash in law between indigenous Australians and white European settled Australia.
- In the heart of the Darien forest, newly elected Embera indigenous governor Morelia must confront both male resistance to her leadership and the haunting echoes of her past.
- My Legacy follows Helen as she explores the often tenuous relationship between a mother and daughter made more complex by the legacy of residential school.
- 4 young women , goaded one minute and encouraged the next by an androgynous MC , take over a night club to tell the story of Sonia and Max . Sonia, the group's lead singer is trapped in an abusive relationship with Max. Through song and dramatic reconstruction of moments in their life, she attempts to find freedom. Originally a very popular stage production, Laef I Swit is Vanuatu's first full length film musical. Performed by members of Wan Smolbag Theatre, the only professional theatre and filmmaking troupe in Melanesia.
- A young Indian officer takes it upon himself to undo a superstition that the women of Penchangpa tribe have poison in their nails, killing those who eat food from them. In the backdrop China usurps Indian pasture land.
- A documentary covering painter Djiwul (Jack) Wunuwun and his brother-in-law, John Bulun Bulun, as Wunuwun completes his Banubirr (Morning Star) series of paintings in his homeland of Garmerdi.
- The first Melanau film. A community film done by the Melanau in Matu and Dalat about a love story between Amal and his girlfriend. He then faced many problems such as lost many things when he found out that he is senudei (wanted by spirits). As a modern guy, he never believed in the supernatural even though he live with a Melanau community that still talking about the myth. Lost in an another world make he feels that he has conflicts. Partly documentary and partly narrative. The movie is challenging the styles of a film and inviting the viewers to learn the mystical world of Melanau in Sarawak, Borneo and how they adapt them with modernity. Will be one of your weirdest movies in 2020.
- A documentary looking at one of Australia's biggest and deadliest killers - suicide.
- In one of the most remote corners of indigenous Australia, a small community is fighting for its traditions and its future. Looking to the nearby mining towns and mission settlements the community Elders can see their culture in decline and abuse. They are worried that families' may be forced by Government to leave the safety of their ancestral lands, and accept a future without the foundations of their culture. This is the intimate story of one families' struggle to cope with the responsibilities of a richly complex traditional culture in a fast consuming 21st Century world. And their challenge: how do you raise kids with the dignity, insight, and self-respect necessary to succeed in these conflicting worlds?
- Juvenile is about two teenagers lived two different lives in Honiara, Solomon Islands. A film that portrays family, friendship and bad choices that needed a system to help Henry and Jimmy get back on knees.
- Native Taiwanese, from the ethnic group Atayal, Protest against the claims of the central government - made up of Chinese immigrants from the ethnic group Han, who are now most of the population - build a bridge through their old village. The documentary cue interweaves with the fiction story of two Atalayal brothers: Taqun is the minority delegate in the central government, Yukan works for a construction company which is now demolishing some scruffy buildings. When Taqun is injured by a drunk driver who has run over him, Yukan leaves for a trip in search of his origins.
- Icaros explores the spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the Ucayali river, one of the main tributaries of the Peruvian Amazon. Young Mokan Rono sets outs on a journey to discover the ancestral knowledge of ayahuasca, mentored by a wise shaman and by his mother, a master healer.
- The remote Warlpiri community of Lajamanu are preparing for Milpirri, an exciting cross-cultural event. Milpirri clouds bring rain from the collision of opposites, reminding us all that to find our way 'back home' we need to listen to 'ngurra' (home) - the country we share.