Short Film Screening
In partnership with the Elders and Traditional Peoples Gathering
I See
Noémie Echaquan, Julie Ottawa | Canada | 2023 | 3 mins
Ni Wapiten is a plea to better respect Mother Earth. In this poetic film, we follow a child’s journey through the woods to his community’s local dump. Playfully, he reuses the waste to build a bear, symbolizing nature.
The Fighter
André-Charles Ishpatao | Canada | 2023 | 6 mins
André-Charles is a boxer. Sports changed his life. He hopes his journey will inspire others to regain their pride and hold their heads high when facing life’s adversities.
There Are Hierarchies of Grief
Meky Ottawa | Canada | 2023 | 5 mins
Smokii Sumac reflects on the wisdom and strength of bereaved mothers, as he is faced with the grief of waking up to a changed world–the day after Donald Trump was elected as President of the United States.
Heart Like a Pow Wow
Chief Lady Bird | Canada | 2023 | 5 mins
Heart Like A Pow Wow explores the depths of grief from an Anishinaabe perspective of love and family. Viewers are called to witness Spirit as they shift to physical form while embodying the love that precedes grief and inevitably foreshadows it.
Ancestral Threads
Sean Stiller | Canada | 2023 | 12 mins
Follow Joleen Mitton on her mission to use fashion as medicine for Vancouver’s Indigenous community. A former fashion model, Joleen is now a community leader and founder of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week.
Grape Soda in the Parking Lot
Megan Kyak-Monteith | Canada | 2023 | 8mins
What if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in flowers? Taqralik Partridge’s grandmother’s Scottish Gaelic and her father’s Inuktitut unfold in memories of her family, of pain, and of love.