Program Length: 64 minutes
G.O.A.T
Kimberley Benjamin (Yawuru, Bardi and Kija) • 11m • Australia • 2026 • English
Hilarious small-town hijinks ensue as a young queer Aboriginal woman, Lilah, falls head over heels for an apparently indifferent new colleague and puts her desire to the test, sparking a chaotic, heartfelt race to ask her to the NAIDOC Ball.
THE FIRST INDIGENOUS FEMALE PORNOGRAPHER
Jamie Whitecrow (Seine River First Nation) • Key Cast: Monique Mojica (Guna & Rappahannock) • 13m • 2025 • Canada • English
THE FIRST INDIGENOUS FEMALE PORNOGRAPHER is Audrey Little-breast, a native woman whose life and work defies categorization. During a candid interview, she unravels the mysterious settler desire and sexual appetite for “imaginary Indians” that guided her pornographic work in the 1970s and contemplates its impact on Indigenous sexuality. This film blends and bends archival footage, pornography, and re-enactments, and invites us to ponder how deeply historical and contemporary settler-indigenous relations impact our sexuality.
Convenience Store NDN Zombie
Cole Forrest (Anishinaabe) • 6.5m • USA • 2025 • English
Zoe and Benny are in love. Benny dies the night before Halloween and is reanimated as a zombie. Claire, Zoe's best friend has nefarious intentions.
Beneath Our Skin
Ngaire Lyden-Elleray (Pasifika/Mi'kmaq/Tongan/Irish/English) • 15m 2025 • Canada • English
Misi, a young Indigenous woman, is plagued by vivid dreams that draw her deeper into her family's past and their connection to the land. While the city around her is closing in, Misi must escape to find the cause behind her visions.
Kakxop pahok: as crianças cegas
Charles Bicalho (Brazilian) • Cassiano Maxakali (Maxakali) • 17.5m • 2025 • Brazil • Portuguese w/ Eng. Subtitles
One day all the men in the village went hunting. And days, and weeks and months passed... And they didn’t come back. The women of the village then exchanged their children among themselves, so as not to be left without husbands, and began to live a new life. However, one day the men returned from hunting. And they found themselves in a state of affairs very different from the one they had left.
Spoken in the Maxakali language and illustraded by the residents of Forest School Village (Aldeia Escola Floresta) in the mucicipality of Teófilo Otoni, in Minas Gerais state, in southeastern Brazil, Kakxop pahok is based on a traditional story of the Maxakali (Tikmû’ûn) people. And forms the Hãmnõgnõy Trilogy of indigenous animations with Konãgxeka: the Maxakali Flood (2016) and Mãtãnãg, the Enchanted (2019).