Program Length: 1 hour
Pidikwe (Rumble)
Caroline Monnet (Algonquin) • 10m • 2025 • Canada • No dialogue
Featuring indigenous women of various generations, Pidikwe integrates traditional and contemporary dance in an audiovisual whirlwind that straddles the border between film and performance, somewhere between the past and the future.
Anotc ota ickwaparin akosiin
Catherine Boivin (Atikamekw) • 5.5m • New Zealand • 2024 • Canada
We see a mother doing household chores while her daughter is playing carefree. A voice-over talks to her own mother, sharing happy and painful memories and awakening deep wounds passed down from generation to generation.
Smoke With The Land
Montana Miller • 1m • 2024 • USA • English
Take time to appreciate the land and environment around. Do it with medicine smoke. Take time to be one with Nature. Escape into mother earths womb.
The Rot
Courtney Papigatuk-Bentley (Salluit, Nunavik) • 2m • 2025 • Canada • English
A poetic reflection of the cycle of life and death.
It’s possible for beauty, and even life, to come out of the rot.
My Braid Is Beautiful - Gnaajwan Nkaadengan
Larissa Jordyn Wrightman (Ojibwe) • 2 minutes • 2025 • Canada • English/Ojibwe
visual poem exploring the deep connection between identity, relationships, and community through the power of a braid. Weaving together strength, beauty, and cultural pride, the film honours the significance of language revitalization, emphasizing how tradition and belonging endure through the simple yet profound act of braiding.
cadèwašteya
Nadine Arpin (Michif) • 3 minutes • 2025 • Canada
An experimental digital collage flow of consciousness collaboration. Cadèwašteya is the Nakota word that means with a good heart. Sharing personal notions of the heart this piece was a collective form of grieving and healing.
Cherish The Ones In The Between
Yuma Hester (Anishinaabe) • 4 minutes • 2024 • Canada
A poetic experimental analogue and digital film created as part of the "Saugeen Takes On Film" program.
The Artist's Path(ology)
Storm Charmaine Barbara Standing On The Road • 6 minutes • 2025 • Canada • English
The path of an aspiring artist has never been an easy one, especially when the mind can sometimes be a trap of comparisons and fear. A spoken-word film.
Berry Breast
Danielle Vandale (Métis) • 11.5 minutes • 2024 • Canada • English
This film explores the deep connection between land, identity, and the feminine spirit. Through poetic visuals, slow stop-motion animation, and evocative soundscapes, the film imagines a world where women draw their strength from the earth itself.
Wind Rabbit
January Rogers (Haudenosaunee) • 7 minutes • 2025 • Canada • English
In this video poem, January remains in conflict with herself knowing the laying of train tracks displaced Indigenous people from their traditional lands, and often times were never compensated for this grave colonial disruption. Train travel affords the rider time to reflect on passing scenery superficially while going inwards with personal matters given long stretches of time in motion while remaining stationary.
Little Orange Bandages
Kile M. George (Ojibwe) • 4 minutes • 2025 • Canada • English
Little Orange Bandages pieces creative visuals with spoken word poetry to express a young First Nation person’s frustration with the lack of meaningful reconciliation.
Who are you? Who am I?
Frédérique Picard (Innu) • 4.5 minutes • 2025 • Canada • French w/ Eng. Subs
A young Indigenous woman is preparing to leave her community. This departure makes her reflect on her identity: as she moves into adulthood, she feels as much a stranger in her village as in her new town.