List of the best Alanis Obomsawin movies: Waban-Aki: People From Where the Sun Rises(2006), Trick or Treaty?(2014), Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen(2018) ... ...
Documentary
Canada
2006
104 Minutes
Director
Continuing to take the pulse of First Peoples in Canada, Obomsawin takes us home-to her Abenaki community of Odanak, Quebec. She skilfully weaves the richly textured history of her formerly... See full summary »
Documentary
2014
85 Minutes
Director
Documentarian Alanis Obomsawin delves into the history of Treaty 9, the 1905 agreement between the First Nations and the Canadian government.
Documentary, Biography
New Zealand
2018
89 Minutes
Awatea Mita Hepi Mita Alanis Obomsawin N. Bird Runningwater Taika Waititi
Documentary portrait of pioneering filmmaker and mother Merata Mita, detailing how her filmmaking intersected with the lives of her children and indigenous filmmakers globally, and featuring rare archival footage dating back to 1977.