Abstract: The paper first makes a clarification of national film, ethnic minorityrelated film and ethnic minority film; categorizes the ethnic minorityrelated film into three phases of development in the global context, summarizes their respective characteristics in cultural imagination, identity and ideological representation; and lastly, considers the possible strategies and approaches for the ethnic minorityrelated film development from the perspective of cultural pluralism and global representation of ethnic heterogeneity in the hope of specifying strategies and approach of ethnic minorityrelated film in the global context.