
Feature Film - The captivating story of a young girl living in a Shuar community and dreaming of the feminine spirit of the orchard, named Nunkui, just like her. While her aunt teaches her songs and cultivation secrets, the vast Amazon jungle in which they live is handed over to transnational mining companies and evictions begin in the area. The premonitory dreams, the figure of her grandfather, an old Shuar leader, and a lush world of plants, animals, spirits, mark her journey into adolescence and the understanding of her place in the world.
Documentaries - Reservation Redemption tells the powerful story of Chief Marchand Rice, a man who journeyed from a life sentence for murder to becoming a voice of hope, healing, and transformation. BreakPoint: The Untold Story of the Constitution Express takes place in 1980, as Canada moved to erase Indigenous rights from its new constitution, thousands of First Nations people boarded trains and traveled nearly 5000 kilometers to Ottawa. When Fire Turns To Ash is an essayistic documentary that explores the history of Tierra del Fuego, its vanished cultures and empty natural landscapes, and creates a de-colonized reading of the landscape. Six runner-messengers run 330 miles in four days to commemorate the survivors of The Navajo Long Walk and honor the perseverance and endurance of the Dine in The Long Walk: A Dance With Humanities. For over 11,000 years, Native people lived in, traveled through, and carefully stewarded the land we now call Yellowstone National Park in Ice, Stone, Spirit: Uncovering the Stories of Yellowstone's First People.
Shorts - Brown Boys is visually poetic and deeply personal, as it delves into the experiences of young Indigenous men, exploring identity, belonging, and cultural connection. Syppyt Suruktar (Lost Letters) tells a story about several friends who fell into a hole and found themselves in another realm, where capitalist and exploitative powers destroyed many forms of life. Haunted by his past, a man (Lloyd Hurter) comes to understand that reverence is not salvation, but a dangerous illusion. Three Native cousins, racing against time & fate, take a wrong turn that threatens their chance to make Grand Entry - forcing them to confront their differences and unite before it’s too late. Reede and Ray examine the games of life while jumping through deminsions in Your Turn. In Maji-Manidoowaadizi, Clint begins experiencing disturbing recurring nightmares that suggest something far darker than a simple disappearance after his cousin Jack goes missing. An Indigenous man investigates a mysterious sound echoing through the city that reverberates through space and time in The Boom. Saqnikte’ Canastuj, a New York–born astronaut, is selected for humanity’s first permanent lunar colony in Moonbound, An Ancestral Passage. Taxi the Empties, is the storey of an unemployed Indigenous youth, Madden, is given an ultimatum by his father to find work by the end of the day or face being kicked out, his desperate attempt to cash in bottles for a pay-and-talk cell phone card turns into an unpredictable odyssey across the rez.
Documentary Shorts - Born in Whitewood and raised in Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley, Erroll Kinistino’s life and work are deeply rooted in the land, stories, and traditions of Southeast Saskatchewan. Seeds We Bury tells the story of the Ati Tribe of the Philippines and the Shinnecock Nation of the United States, two indigenous island communities separated by oceans, yet united in the preservation of land, people, and culture. When a migrant detention center (Alligator Alcatraz) is proposed in the Everglades, the Miccosukee tribe along with others fight against it. In South to Freeedom, Florida, under Spanish rule, was both a sanctuary for those escaping slavery, and a threat to the Southeast’s slavery-based economy. The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, gifted not one, but five white buffalo calves (Waabishki Mashkode-bizhiki) to area tribal nations around present day North Dakota. The Terry Lee Canoe Club, from Sts’ailes First Nation (Chehalis) , began decades ago as a family-based crew in Raised by the Canoe. Kokum Dorothy's Story' is the powerful story of Dorothy (Sekan) Visser (nee Whiskeyjack), a First Nations elder from Saddle Lake, Treaty 6 territory, who was taken to an Indian residential school at age five.