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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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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 between her visions and the real-world.
Find out more »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."
Find out more »Pegahmagabow
An Ojibwe sniper is tasked with his first solo mission across No Man's Land. He uses his army training and leans heavily on his cultural know-how to complete the mission. Along the way, he encounters a German outpost.
Find out more »The Knight of the Sorrowful Figure
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza set forth on their quest in search of honor, chivalry, and legacy.
Find out more »12:00 pm
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, a strange man comes in, asking her personal questions and... Read more »
Find out more »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.
Find out more »2:00 pm
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 he is of Native American heritage and begins this long... Read more »
Find out more »Red Running into Love
Two Navajo teens find themselves in a meet cute that goes terribly wrong.
Find out more »The Boom
An Indigenous man investigates a mysterious sound echoing through the city that reverberates through space and time.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »We Act Like Children
Beyond the end of time, two children hide in spiritual stasis from the terrors of their perceived future.
Find out more »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 a residential school survivor is not worth re-entering the tribe.... Read more »
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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 enjoyed. As communities witness drastic environmental changes, the need to... Read more »
Find out more »5:00 pm
Horše Hiyis
Horše Hiyis is a short film about intergenerational relationships to fire and to each other that are nurtured on rematriated land.
Find out more »MiLakóta Yeló
MiLakóta Yeló is a short Lakota-led documentary that intimately portrays a traditional Lakota grandmother on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. Living memories of the land and language are spoken through personal memoirs, offering a quiet reflection on Lakota life, identity, and enduring matriarchal wisdom. This film is dedicated to the grandmothers who uphold our communities.
Find out more »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 transformed her process and deepened her love for the craft.... Read more »
Find out more »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 remarkable return of Buffalo Relatives back to Blackfeet homelands and... Read more »
Find out more »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 natural world. Billy Gauthier: Carving the Future is an intimate... Read more »
Find out more »7:30 pm
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.
Find out more »Julie Takes a Walk
Julie's life choices have been dictated by her family but this all changes when she is told just moments before her own wedding that she is adopted. Confused and shocked, she runs away and follows the only clue she has to a small town on the other side of Oklahoma. That's where Julie meets the... Read more »
Find out more »The Whistling
When an unlikely crew of Native filmmakers gather to make a film, they become trapped inside the set and, one by one, begin to disappear.
Find out more »The Dark Days of Cassidy Krystian
An Ojibwe woman is awakened to her past and its bloody aftermath.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »Niimi
An Indigenous ballerina attempts to reignite her passion for dancing following a traumatic incident with her previous coach.
Find out more »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 survival, identity, and the sacred power carried in the body.
Find out more »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 giving chase. When he finds The Potter and The Cultivator... Read more »
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