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Gasohug

7.8

Eve has the ability to see fragments of her future in her dreams and she believes that the gas station guy is her 'enchanted prince' whom she has been seeing glimpses of in her foretelling dreams. Pun is just an ordinary…

Tale of the Lost Boys

7.0

It is the story of the friendship between two men — Alex, a Filipino mechanic, and Jerry, a Taiwanese aborigine student. The two meet randomly when Alex flees to Taipei from Manila after leaving his girlfriend pregnant.…

Tokwifi

8.4

A 1950s mestiza star, trapped inside a television that fell from the sky – dreams up a romantic romp with a Bontok Igorot man who does not know how to kiss. (Source: Cinemalaya)

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale II - Rainbow Bridge

7.7

During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the aboriginal Seediq were forced to lose their own culture and give up their faith. Men were subject to harsh labor and kept from traditional hunting; whereas women had to serve the…

A Year in the Clouds

7.7

High in the mountains of Taiwan, is the remote village of Smangus. Inhabited by a unique group of indigenous people called the Tayal, Smangus is the only place in Taiwan that now practices common ownership of land and…

Gaga

7.6

The story follows three generations of a Taiwanese Indigenous family (Atayal tribe) that begins to fall apart when its head dies. With his passing, "Gaga" — the traditional belief in maintaining order between people…

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

7.5

During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the aboriginal Seediq were forced to lose their own culture and give up their faith. Men were subject to harsh labor and kept from traditional hunting; whereas women had to serve the…

K'na, the Dreamweaver

7.5

When Kana, a young T'boli woman, becomes a dreamweaver, she has the chance to weave together her village's warring clans. But, will she give up true love to do so?

Tale of the Land

May, a Dayak girl, has not stepped on land for a decade. She lost her parents over a land conflict, and has since been living in a floating house with Tuha, an old man that saved her life. The trauma has stayed with…

Kla Talay

This story follows the lives and discoveries of young Moken people in the Surin Islands of Phang-Nga, Thailand. When eighteen-year-old Ka-e finds a camera on the sea floor, he doesn't realise the danger of bringing it—and…

The Wedding Dance

In 1942, a Kalinga woman is personally invited by her husband, a warrior of their tribe, to his new wedding dance. (Source: cinemalaya.org) ~~ Adapted from the short story "The Wedding Dance" by Amador T. Daguio.

The Inhabitant

Based on real-life trials of the Atis, the indigenous people of Central Panay, a 16-year-old chieftain’s daughter fights tooth and nail with her people for their ancestral land. (Source: letterboxd.com)

Songs of Kamui

More than anything, brilliant Teru longs to attend school with other girls. But in early 20th-century Japan, Teru is excluded because she is Ainu. Instead of writing, the Ainu—indigenous people from Japan’s Hokkaido…

Swirling in the Dreams

Fewer number of indigenous people in Taiwan still believe in Shamanism. Shamans bore responsibility for communicating with the spirit world, and relied on rituals to help others to avoid misfortune. However, both the…

Black Rainbow

Itan, a 12-year-old Aeta boy, has to leave school to help his father, a farmer, and save money for the delivery of his pregnant mother. The young boy’s hopes are raised again when he hears about the existence of scholarship…

Land of Gods

Ainu: Indigenous People Of Japan

The Ainu are an indigenous people living in the northern part of Japan, especially on the island of Hokkaido. Being relatively autonomous until the 19th century, they suffered a strong pressure to “modernize” and…

Bihinang

The film tells the situation of neglected indigenous groups in the Philippines. (Source: ioncinema.com)

Arisaka

6.8

A witness under police escort is attacked. A policewoman, the only one who survives, is sheltered by indigenous people, but assailants hunt her down... An action thriller set in Bataan. (Source: TIFF)