Canoe Carry Me Home
Indigenous filmmaker Derek Sands discovers his great-great-grandfather’s lost canoe, and returns home to Walpole Island, where rebuilding it sparks a reconnection to culture, land, and community.
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Raised by The Canoe
The Terry Lee Canoe Club of Sts’ailes First Nation began as a family crew and now thrives in resurgence, guided by Cathrine and Devin Paul, uniting generations through carving, training, and cultural continuity.
Making A Bark Canoe
An ethnographic documentary directed by Roger Sandall, recording the construction of a bark canoe by two Aboriginal men, Djurkuwidi and Wangamaru, on the north coast of Arnhem Land. Filmed in the coastal swamps of Buckin
The Tree and the Canoe
The life of a Melanesian tribe is disrupted by the progressive arrival of modernity. Iabe, a young Melanesian, finds this change very hard to cope with and gets lost between his traditions and this modernity.
Cesar's Bark Canoe
"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of Montréal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots, and gum. With
Coyote's Canoe
Inspired by the land formation known as Coyote’s Canoe, located near Gloria’s home in Splatsin community, this visual story shares the legend of the coyote bringing salmon to the people of the Interior of British Columbi
The Legend of the Flying Canoe
The time: New Year's Eve, late 1800s. The place: Gatineau Valley, Quebec. A group of loggers, working in an isolated winter camp, yearn to celebrate New Year's Eve with their loved ones. But the river is frozen, the sky
Sugar Creek Gang: Great Canoe Fish
Does the Great Canoe Fish actually exist? Or is he a two hundred year old canoe-size legend? The Sugar Creek Gang packs their fishing gear and sleeping bags for a canoe trip to find out. But they're not alone. Dragonfly
The Columbia River Canoe Project
The Columbia River Canoe Project follows cousins Robert Lester and Braxton Mitchell as they attempt a 1,300-mile canoe expedition from the Continental Divide near Butte, Montana, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Braxton
The Survival Of The Wood Canoe
People around the world have traveled in canoes they have proudly made themselves since time began. The Survival of the Wood Canoe chronicles the adventures of one couple who, over 50 years, built a business based on tea
Noah's Canoe
This story is set in Maine’s north woods. It follows the journey of Noah, a transgender male as he moves from a difficult past into a healing future, finding his place as a man in a family of his own.
Moananuiākea: One Ocean, One People, One Canoe
From 2019 Maui Film Festival This powerful documentary celebrates the historic Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage that connected countless individuals and communities from around the globe. A voyage that also represented the
Man.Canoe.Ocean
Nearly devoid of editing resources, the videos feature single shots of anonymous people in daily life, subtly revealed/highlighted through zooming. Instead of uncovering reality, though, the videos end up turning it into
Solitudes: Loon Country by Canoe
A picturesque journey through undisturbed wilderness. Placed in a canoe, the viewer is treated to the intimacies of relections, abstract marvels, and the closest wildlife photography imaginable. The nature sounds bring a
Mounts Ward the Canoe off
Chen Ping, who has been away from his homeland for many years, takes his boyfriend back to his hometown to visit his sick mother. He takes a small boat through the dangerous peaks, not paying attention to the dark curren
Three Little Bruins in a Canoe
Black and white film with captions of Three Little Bruins in a Canoe by Castle Films.
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: The Real Story
Documentary about John Darwin, who faked his own death in a canoeing accident and then started a new life with his wife Anne in Panama.
Raftsmen and Canoeists
The choreography repeated from generation to generation, the collective effort to lower and raise the rafts into the sea; the nautical gestures and respect for the right tide time; the knowledge passed down from father t
Ten Canoes
A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brot
Twelve Canoes
"Twelve Canoes" is a series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern