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Movies: Best "indigenous lgbt" Movies

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Big Eden(2000)

1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

Henry Hart is a young gay artist living in New York City. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry puts his career on hold and returns home to the small town of Big Eden, Montana, to care for him. While there, Henry hopes to strike up a romance with Dean Stewart, his high-school best friend for whom he still has feelings. But he's surprised when he finds that Pike, a quiet Native American who owns the local general store, may have a crush on him.

Directed by Thomas Bezucha - With Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, Louise Fletcher, Corinne Bohrer, George Coe, ...

Fancy Dance(2023)

1h 30min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax has cared for her niece Roki by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of losing custody to Jax’s grandfather, Frank, the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world and at the mercy of a failed justice system.

Directed by Erica Tremblay - With Lily Gladstone, Shea Whigham, Audrey Wasilewski

Kumu Hina(2014)

1h 15min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A transgender Native Hawaiian teacher inspires a young girl to fulfill her destiny of leading the school's male hula troupe, even as she struggles to find love and a committed relationship in her own life.

Directed by Dean Hamer

Leitis in Waiting(2018)

1h 12min | Documentary
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga Leitis, an intrepid group of transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in the South Pacific Kingdom.

Fire Song(2015)

1h 36min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Shane, a gay Anishnabe teenager in Northern Ontario, is struggling to support his family in the aftermath of his sister's suicide. If he fails, he will be forced to choose between his family's home and his own future.

Directed by Adam Garnet Jones

Kawa(2010)

1h 16min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A psychological drama of a family in crisis. Kawa, a successful Māori businessman in Auckland, New Zealand, is forced to reveal his lifelong secret - that he is gay.

Directed by Katie Wolfe - With Calvin Tuteao, Dean O'Gorman, Nathalie Boltt, George Henare
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Drunktown's Finest(2014)

1h 35min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

On a desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people – a college-bound, devout Christian; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous but gorgeous Nádleehi (trans person)- search for love and acceptance.

Directed by Sydney Freeland - With Jeremiah Bitsui

Natives(2013)

20min | Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Anita grew up on the Seneca Indian reservation, and for the first time ever, she's bringing her partner Rachel to meet her parents.

Sweetheart Dancers(2019)

12min | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Sean and Adrian, a Two-Spirit couple, are determined to rewrite the rules of Native American culture through their participation in the “Sweetheart Dance.” This celebratory contest is held at powwows across the country, primarily for heterosexual couples … until now.

The Business of Fancydancing(2002)

NR
| 1h 43min | Music, Drama
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Indian poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to attend the funeral of a dear friend.

Directed by Sherman Alexie - With Evan Adams

Two Spirits(2009)

1h 5min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he 'bug-smashed a fag'. But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition - the 'nadleeh', or 'two-spirit', who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits.