Program Length: 87 minutes
Growing Together: A Journey in Agriculture
Preston Sam (Cree), Adam Koperqualuk (Cree/Inuk) • 6m • Canada • 2026 • English
Preston and Adam work together to deepen and share their know-how about living in a harsh northern climate. In a geodesic dome, they grow food that they offer directly to their community, while teaching the members food self-sufficiency.
Everlasting
Amanda Lickers (Seneca) • 11m • 2025 • Canada • English
This experimental short film—a research-creation blending documentary and archival research in the cinema verité format—follows the place-keeping power of unbroken ties to territory through local seed saving and hide tanning initiatives. These ways of being and doing refuse settler partitions of land and city challenging settler geographies of terra nullius. Interlacing past-present-future across the backdrop of a shape-shifting metropolis, the short film affirms Indigenous peoples’ connection to the land beyond the past—as everlasting.
Waska: The Forest Is My Family
Nina Gualinga (Sarayaku) • 15m 2025 • Ecuador • English, Kichwa, Spanish
As commodification and extractivism in the Amazon Rainforest extends to the plant medicine hayakwaska, the granddaughter of a Yachak (shaman) reveals the essence of what it means to live as part of the forest.
Nina Gualinga of the Kichwa People of Sarayaku, speaks with the memory of her Apayaya (grandfather) about the ongoing cultural appropriation, environmental destruction and marginalization of Indigenous Peoples, questioning our very relationship to earth and the quest for healing.
Roxana - a climate story
Mathias Schweikert, Tobias Schäfer • 9.5m • 2026 • Peru • English, Spanish
In the Peruvian Amazon, many Indigenous communities still live without reliable access to electricity or the internet. At the same time, large fossil fuel projects cut through the region. In Alto Mishagua, this contradiction sets the backdrop for the story of Roxana.
When Roxana returns during the pandemic, her home feels more isolated than ever, and the warnings of the elders grow more urgent: their forest is changing, the rains are shifting, and life is becoming more uncertain. Together with other young people, she begins to imagine a different future built on clean and independent energy.
Raised by the Canoe
Cathrine Paul (Squamish) • 16.5m • Canada • 2025 • English
The Terry Lee Canoe Club, from Sts’ailes First Nation (Chehalis) , began decades ago as a family-based crew. This beautiful dugout canoe brought family and friends together. It's history is rich with culture and stories shared by the founders and early members. Today, the club is experiencing a powerful resurgence as the next generation carries on the canoe culture and strives to nurture and care for its reestablishment.
Our Adat, Our Strength (Nge Pali Adat Lepo)
Feisal Azizuddin (Malaysian) • 29m • 2024 • Malaysia • English • Bahasa Sarawak with English subtitles
The documentary follows Gara Jalong, in his 60s, as he tends to Long Lawen, his village in rural Sarawak, Malaysia. He reminisces about being forced to resettle from Long Gang due to the Bakun Dam’s development. Long Lawen faces new challenges, including encroaching loggers and a lack of clinics and schools, causing the younger generation to move to towns. Gara’s relentless pursuit is to call his land his own and create a legacy for future generations.