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• After Dark During a late-night run through a secluded park, a park ranger encounters an old friend as rumors of mysterious disappearances begin to feel terrifyingly real. See Details

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• Billy Gauthier: Carving the Future With each stroke of his blade, acclaimed Inuk carver Billy Gauthier instills his art with his passion for his home, Labrador. His carvings are sought after across the globe for their flowing intricate details and profound messages rooted in Inuit culture and connections to the... See Details
• The Boom An Indigenous man investigates a mysterious sound echoing through the city that reverberates through space and time. See Details
• Broken Path After a year away, a young Navajo women returns to her childhood home and unexpectedly reunites with her estranged brother. What was meant to be a quick visit soon unearths old wounds and unspoken truths that neither of them have truly faced. See Details

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• Convenience Store NDN Zombie 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. See Details

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• The Dark Days of Cassidy Krystian An Ojibwe woman is awakened to her past and its bloody aftermath. See Details

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• Errand Guy Brad, a middle-aged errand runner, gets guilt-tripped by his dead Jewish Grandmother into believing his passive life embarrasses his ancestors, so he steals a Ferrari and tries to buy a minor league baseball team behind his wife’s back. See Details

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• Forgotten Founder: The Untold Story of Samson Occom and Dartmouth Co-directed by Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, a descendant of Occom, and filmmaker Signe Taylor, this new documentary uncovers the largely erased history of Samson Occom, a Mohegan minister, educator and Indigenous intellectual whose fundraising efforts were instrumental in the founding of Dartmouth College. Despite his central... See Details
• Frost Scraping This short documentary follows Kanina Terry, a hide tanner from Sioux Lookout, whose family roots in hunting inspired her to ensure no hide goes to waste. Driven to learn the practice, Kanina not only mastered tanning but also refined a winter frost-scraping method that has... See Details

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• Herminia Herminia fulfills her childhood dream of becoming a US Marine meanwhile the relationship with her mother is strained. While back home from leave she discover’s the truth behind her mother’s depression. See Details

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• IINNIIWA: The Blackfeet Buffalo Story Inniiwa: The Blackfeet Buffalo Story is more than a film. It is a living testament to how story, art, and land can transform one another, and our larger humanity. This conversation brings together INDIGENOUS LED and collaborators, including Yo-Yo Ma’s creative contribution, to explore the... See Details
• Ish Meets a Mermaid An artist in a slump meets a mysterious woman from a realm beneath Lake Superior and finds success in the last place he ever expected — death. See Details

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• Kindred Roots Kindred Roots (La Sangre Llama) follows the journey of Zapotec migrants from a small town in San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca, Mexico. With a collective dream to improve and modernize their hometown, they assembled a community in a land far from home. In their efforts to... See Details
• The Knight of the Sorrowful Figure Don Quixote and Sancho Panza set forth on their quest in search of honor, chivalry, and legacy. See Details

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• The Land Still Speaks This short documentary highlights the voices of Indigenous peoples in Marin county, California and their relationships with land, language, and cultural preservation. See Details
• Little Orange Bandages An experimental short featuring a young Anishinaabe artist’s spoken-word expression of frustration over the emptiness of reconciliation. See Details

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• Made For Her: A Native American Fashion Film Our story follows The Cultivator and The Potter, Spiritual Beings bound by their forbidden love. In their high-fashion dimension, they must hide their relationship. The Potter’s parents offer her hand to The Warrior. Taken by surprise, The Potter runs from the alter with The Warrior... See Details
• Menil and Her Heart When a teen goes missing from the Cahuilla Reservation, her sister searches for the truth, navigating her family’s grief and ancestral visions that draw her into a cosmic world that may hold the answers, if she chooses to listen. See Details
• MiLakóta Yeló Milakóta Yeló is a short, Lakota-led documentary that follows a traditional Lakota grandmother on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. Rooted in language, land, and lived experience, the film becomes a quiet reflection on identity, memory, and the enduring presence of Lakota life and matriarchal power. See Details
• More Than Art: RRR.RAID More Than Art: Is a conversation of the creative and expressive O’odham people. From different types of mediums and different walks in life. “Artist”is just a label that makes the human that does the art only view in a certain way. GRBC wants to know... See Details

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• Nasty Beauty and lifestyle influencer, Sienna, receives an unexpected visitor while filming her weekly vlog. See Details
• Niimi An Indigenous ballerina attempts to reignite her passion for dancing following a traumatic incident with her previous coach. See Details
• Niqipiaq: To Eat Real Food Niqipiaq: To Eat Real Food, explores the importance of traditional subsistence practices in Arctic Alaska Native communities. The film takes the viewer out on the sea ice with a hunting crew and into family and community spaces where traditional foods are harvested, prepared, stored, and... See Details

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• Raven Steals the Sun A young Native woman coping with grief has to convince her family members to set her grandmother’s spirit free. Based on a Coast Salish legend, this film explores loss, family, and disrupting the status quo. See Details
• Redemption Redemption is told through the perspectives of fentanyl addiction survivors in recovery, tribal leaders, and healthcare professionals who have answered the call to serve the community and combat the devastating impact of fentanyl on the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation in present-day North Dakota. See Details
• Red Running into Love Two Navajo teens find themselves in a meet cute that goes terribly wrong. See Details
• Roots of a Cedar Tree Far outside of their Tlingit tribal community in Alaska, Ruth, her daughter Lyn, and her granddaughter Ari, live together with conflicting ideas of their own heritage. Ruth has grown cynical and bitter about reconnecting with their indigenous culture, convinced that the pain she endured as... See Details

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• Shadow in the Desert After a reckless, drug-fueled robbery on the Navajo reservation, a young woman escapes with stolen goods and a black leather pouch she doesn’t realize carries a corrupting influence. As its grip tightens and the person she stole it from begins to close in, she’s driven... See Details
• S.O.L. S.O.L. (Statute of Limitations / Shit Outta Luck) is a short film that looks at the limits of justice and the uncertain journey of healing. Through poetic visuals, it explores how survivors deal with trauma. S.O.L. is both personal and political. It breaks the silence,... See Details
• Song Bird Song Bird follows a young, mixed-Choctaw woman named Taloa. She lost her grandmother almost a year before the story takes place and is struggling to figure out a future for herself while actively isolating from family. While closing at the coffee shop she works at,... See Details
• The Spirit of Zorro Cutting back and forth between a dinner and fight to save a prisoner, Don Diego De La Vega battles two worlds, as an aristocrat and the vigilante known as “El Zorro.” See Details
• Stickball: The Little Brother of War An underdog women’s team must come together to defeat the incumbent champions in the World Series of the oldest and bloodiest sport in America: Native American stickball. See Details
• Sunrise, Ha’ii’ah Sunrise is about a teenage Navajo boy who had been adopted at a young age through the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and has been living off the reservation with an adopted family. The Navajo boy begins to conflict with his surroundings and soon discovers... See Details

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• Therapy Karla Lovell, a dedicated child psychologist, is assigned to help Bobbi, a troubled girl haunted by vivid dreams of a mysterious figure named Aiyana and a “monster” hiding in a man. As Bobbi’s drawings and descriptions grow increasingly unsettling, Karla begins to uncover eerie parallels... See Details
• Two Brothers After escaping from a boarding school, two Osage brothers find themselves lost in the woods at the turn of the century, trying to make their way back home – physically and spiritually. See Details
• Tȟáčȟa Škaŋ: Deer Movement After a racially charged and traumatic audition, an Indigenous dancer spirals into a supernatural transformation in her NYC apartment. Haunted by ancestral songs and visions, her body begins to morph—blurring the line between memory, movement, and inherited trauma. Tȟáčȟa Škaŋ is a visceral exploration of... See Details

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• We Act Like Children Beyond the end of time, two children hide in spiritual stasis from the terrors of their perceived future. See Details
• We are Nuche (Ute) Native high school kids filmed a diversity of members of their Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Towaoc, Colorado to talk about what it means to them to be Ute. See Details
• What The Crows Saw A determined Pueblo woman must confront the mysterious inhabitants of a strange tavern as she searches for her missing sister. See Details
• The Whistling See Details