Program Length: 77 minutes
River Revelations
Darcy Tara McDiarmid (Hän & Northern Tutchone),Chantal Rousseau • 5m • 2024 • Canada • No dialogue
Along a sacred river’s edge, enchanted animals navigate mysterious landscapes along a trail from deep time.
Wâhkôhtowin | All My Relations
Barry Bilinsky (Metis, Cree, Ukrainian) • 6m • 2021 • Canada • English
The power of stories, told over many nights, over many years, through all the languages across the world, are encapsulated in an intimate story between a grandmother and her children’s children on a clear winter night in the tipi.
SuperIndigenous
Clément Lagouarde (French/Natchitoches) • 4m • 2025 • France • French w/ Eng. Subs
A young boy drawing the secret identity of his residential school caretaker.
Tankha
Alexander Moruo (Sakha), Markel Martynov • 12.5m • 2025 • Russian Federation • Yakut w/ Eng. subs
During the mystical period of Taŋkha , three friends receive a mysterious prediction from a fortune teller—unleashing strange events they can’t explain. As playful curiosity turns to fear, they must confront the unknown and solve the riddle before it’s too late.
The Wild Sheriff
Sarah Houl (Paddle Prairie Métis Settlement) • 12 minutes • 2025 • Canada • English
A violent storm is brewing as two powerful forces are about to collide. The orphaned Wild Sheriff seeks to bring order as he wrestles with his inner chaos. On his trusty steed, Moustaches, Wild Sheriff is hot on the trail of his nemesis, Mad Dog and his gang of outlaws, the Mangy Mutts. Mad Dog has his own agenda and he is hell bent and won’t rest until he finds what he is searching for.
Cleaning's a Cakewalk
Ryan Begay (Diné) • 20 minutes • 2024 • USA • Navajo Language
An imaginative and independent young boy, Albert, learns the value of hard work and finds his place in his community after having to clean the Chapter House which he finds out is no cake-walk in the park.
Disentangle (Paskay)
Andrea Estéfany Caballero • 14 minutes • 2023 • Bolivia • Quechua
The story of Candelaria and José, young people from a community in the Andean highlands, whose friendship and possible romance is interrupted by the sudden death of José.