Screening Category: 11/23: Shorts Program 4

Nevin, a teenager on the Rez, is convinced to start selling weed. When the Rez dealer tries to recruit his little cousin, Nevin steps up to protect him. Now he has to get the money or deal with the consequences.

Jonny’s a Métis kid with big hopes for the summer — right until he breaks his skateboard. When he meets some buskers who know his grandpa’s fiddle tunes, he realizes he could play fiddle to buy a new board. But is that really what Jonny wants?

George lives a quiet life with his Gokmis on reserve. His girlfriend, Eileen, lives alone in the big citydown south. Facing alienation, isolation, and a society of lovelessness, George chooses instead to love radically – at times through impossible means.

Thea is an 8-year-old Ojibwe girl who is in the process of learning how to speak her traditional language from her mother, Rose. Once a fluent speaker of Anishinaabemowin, the Ojibwe language, Rose’s language skills have become rusty now that she and her daughter live in Vancouver, far away from their family. But through flashcards,… Read more »

Having left Nunavut with her mother Kumaa’naaq (koo-MAT-na) in 1938, young Marguerite must negotiate the unspoken pressures of being Inuk in her new life in the South. When an extraordinary letter arrives from home, Marguerite discovers what’s really expected of her. Based on a true story.

(Navajo Language Short) 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.