Cold Journey

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972 · ★ 7.4

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

Once Were Warriors

1994 · ★ 7.4

In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent love story set against a contemporary urban backdrop.

The African Queen

1952 · ★ 7.3

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.

Bones of Crows

2023 · ★ 6.8

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

Pow Wow Summer

A coming-of-age story that follows two teenagers in love doing the Pow wow circuit.

This Place

2022 · ★ 5.4

Living in the liminal space between worlds, two young women find themselves falling in love for the first time, while also being forced to unexpectedly confront their families, each complicated by legacies of love and loss.

Ka Pō

2022 · ★ 6.5

A young Polynesian woman trapped in the throes of an abusive relationship gets revenge by burning down her boyfriend's home. Fearing retaliation, she flees into the mountains of Kauai, Hawaii, where she discovers a mythical creature that guides her back to her ancestral roots.

Heads or Tails

2005 · ★ 7

Four interlinking stories about a benign native american legend that has been distorted throughout the years into something much darker.

Dead Man

1995 · ★ 7.3

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

Kiri and the Girl

2021

After the death of her mother, a young girl finds her strength and reconnects to her world.

The Wind & the Reckoning

2022 · ★ 9.5

As an outbreak of leprosy engulfs 19th-century colonial Hawai'i, a small group of infected Native Hawaiians resist government-mandated exile, taking a courageous stand against the provisional government. Inspired by real-life events.

1492: Conquest of Paradise

1992 · ★ 6.3

1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.