Michif Land-Based Knowledge
A short film highlighting Indigenous beadwork, prairie landscapes and relationship to the land.
Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal
The formation of Lake Baikal is reimagined with the voice of the Indigenous Buryat language.
The Wild Path Home
The Wild Path Home is a Nogojiwanong / Peterborough-based initiative to raise caring, connected kids through outdoor learning and community.
Singing Back the Buffalo
Richly visualised and deeply uplifting, Singing Back the Buffalo is an epic reimagining of North America through the lens of buffalo consciousness and a potent dream of what is within our grasp.
Summer Qamp
Summer Qamp is a documentary following a group of LGBTQ+ youth at an idyllic lakeside camp in Alberta. The campers enjoy the traditional summer camp experience in a safe, affirming environment.
The Canadian Dream
The Canadian Dream: A poignant glimpse into the harsh realities of migrant farm workers in Canada through one worker’s journey and his daughter’s perspective
Red Fever (Opening Night Film)
Red Fever follows Cree co-director Neil Diamond on his journey to find out why the world is so fascinated with the stereotypical imagery of Native people that is all over pop culture.
Opening Night festivities begin at 6PM with a catered pre-show reception downstairs in Showplace’s Cogeco Studio. At 7PM on the main stage ReFrame and celebrated artist Alice Olsen Williams will officially open the 2025 festival. Following the screening of Red Fever, director Catherine Bainbridge and producer Ernest Webb, co-founders of Rezolution Pictures, will join audiences for a livestreamed Q&A. The evening will end with live musical performances by Missy Knott (Singing Wild Rice Girl) and James Mixemong.
Words Left Unspoken
After avoiding speaking at all costs for over two decades, Joze Piranian, who has a severe stutter, decides to confront his fears, by travelling back to his home country, Lebanon, and holding the conversations he never dared to have before with his family. He hopes to finally make peace with his stutter and become the man he’s always wanted himself to be.
My Dad’s Tapes
A trove of home video tapes spurs a filmmaker to investigate repressed parts of his past and come to terms with his own identity. A search for the cause of his father’s sudden suicide turns into a cathartic journey of reconnection and healing.
Lights of Hope
Each Sunday, a diverse group of determined demonstrators in Belleville stand in support the Palestinian People who are suffering and dying under occupation of the state of Israel.