Category: Shorts Program

Welcome the loving light by mostly emerging and youth filmmakers in this ascendent array of youth power, wisdom and perspectives from various nations across Turtle Island, Aotearoa, and Columbia.

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Special thanks to our community Co-Presenters Wairoa Māori Film Festival

Guest Curated Program: JÓVENES INSURGENTES: CINEMA OF ABYA YALA
Curator: Francisco Tarque Cañipa (Aymara)
81 min
Short Film Program

Artists: Ayelén Lonconao Vargas (Mapuche) | Grecia Arandia Ticona (Quechua) | Alberto Flores Vilca (Quechua) | Iván Jaripio (Embera) | Frida Muenala (Kichwa-Zapoteca) | CHIRAPAQ Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú | Yaid Bolaños (Nasa) | Olinda Yawar Muniz Wanderley (Tupinambá/Pataxó Hãhãhãe)

“JÓVENES INSURGENTES: CINEMA OF ABYA YALA”

This line-up of young filmmakers from Latin-America reveals films born of these lands that represent the new wave within this emerging cinema tradition, committed to Abya Yala (South American) Native cultures.

The selected filmmakers explore aesthetic approaches in their work, imagining, and forming contemporary Native cinema as a fusion between various film genres and Native cultural traditions.

In this collection, we highlight the elements that each filmmaker wants to preserve through their work: born of the need to contribute to the traditional culture of their people. Diversity is asserted through the filmmakers the choices that make up these films, from the use of Native tongue, to the poetry of the spirit world, the importance of duality (man-woman), and, above all, approval within this community-centred approach to the artform.

Moreover, the majority of the films selected consider the feminine as curatorial criteria during the selection process, establishing the role of the Native woman: creator and protagonist. We are witnessing a new phase in Latin-American Native cinema, where technological and cultural limitations for women are overcome, creating a platform for debate on the issues within current thought trends: it is not only about recognizing the role of women, but also about opening spaces for introspection where ancestral ideas and customs converge, those ideas and customs that women protect, challenge, question or strengthen within cultural tradition.

Francisco Tarque Cañipa
Francisco is a film graduate from the University of Valparaiso. He has pursued his profession with an emphasis on the development and interrelation of social and artistic aspects, especially related to the Andean population in the north of Chile. With experience in a variety of audiovisual productions—between features, shorts and animation videos—he specializes as assistant director and producer. At the same time, he has worked on numerous cultural investigation projects, education, and exhibition of Native cinema. He is a longstanding programmer of the Arica Nativa Film Festival.

iNOriginals
Canada | 66 min
Short Films Program

The iN Originals program, supported by Netflix and Telus Storyhive, works in partnership with artist-run-centres to provide emerging filmmakers with the opportunity to create an original short film that premieres at the imagineNATIVE Festival.

Special thanks to our community Co-Presenters Sundance

Love is integral to our relationship with the world around us. Love is represented through the films in the program showing the many forms love is displayed, from our relations, ourselves, our communities, our lands, our traditions.

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Special thanks to our community Co-Presenters Winda Film Festival

Films to get us going and feeling feisty. This selection is about fighting back against oppression!

Special thanks to our community Co-Presenters Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival

Thinking about the transference of knowledge between the ages and spanning many cultures.

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Special thanks to our community Co-Presenters International Sámi Film Institute

Guest Curated Program: KAPOW/ONSHORE Part 1 – TAYPWASHIK/CALL

Curators: Jason Baerg (Cree-Métis) | Jessica Lea Fleming (Wiisaakodewinikwe (Métis)/Scottish)
Canada | 48 min

Advisors: Cathy Mattes (Michif) | Sherry Farrell Racette (Métis) 

Artists: Rebecca Sadowski (Métis) | Chanelle Lajoie (Métis) | Amanda Strong (Michif (Metis)) | Marcel Petit (Metis) | Chanelle Lajoie (Métis) | Gregory Coyes (Métis/Cree) | Anna Celestrya-Carr (Metis/Anishinaabe) | Jessie Ray Short (Métis)

The Kapow/Onshore Métis Program offers an array of works by some of Turtle Island’s most compelling Michif/Halfbreed/Mixed-Blood artists. Working in mediums and styles as unique as the landscapes which hold our stories, this selection highlights our vital and transformative relationships with each other, the waters, and the land. Kapow/Onshore acknowledges the sovereign perspectives and contributions of our kin over time, while engaging both audiences and community in our journey back to uplifted unity. A Métis Kitchen Table Talk will accompany the program with Cathy Mattes, Sherry Farrell Racette, Jason Baerg, Jessica Lea Fleming, and invited Community members.

Part 1 – TAYPWASHIK/CALL
How the Fiddle Flows | 48 min | Gregory Coyes (Métis/Cree)

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Guest Curated Program: KAPOW/ONSHORE Part 2 – NAASHKOOMIKOO/RESPONSE

Curators: Jason Baerg (Cree-Métis) | Jessica Lea Fleming (Wiisaakodewinikwe (Métis)/Scottish)
Canada | 36 min
2-Part Film Program | Friday, October 22, 2021

Advisors: Cathy Mattes (Michif) | Sherry Farrell Racette (Métis) 

Artists: Rebecca Sadowski (Métis) | Chanelle Lajoie (Métis) | Amanda Strong (Michif (Metis)) | Marcel Petit (Metis) | Chanelle Lajoie (Métis) | Gregory Coyes (Métis/Cree) | Anna Celestrya-Carr (Metis/Anishinaabe) | Jessie Ray Short (Métis) | Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Cree/Halfbreed)

The Kapow/Onshore Métis Program offers an array of works by some of Turtle Island’s most compelling Michif/Halfbreed/Mixed-Blood artists. Working in mediums and styles as unique as the landscapes which hold our stories, this selection highlights our vital and transformative relationships with each other, the waters, and the land. Kapow/Onshore acknowledges the sovereign perspectives and contributions of our kin over time, while engaging both audiences and community in our journey back to uplifted unity. A Métis Kitchen Table Talk will accompany the program with Cathy Mattes, Sherry Farrell Racette, Jason Baerg, Jessica Lea Fleming, and invited Community members.

Part 2 – NAASHKOOMIKOO/RESPONSE
awa iskwêw kâ-âpihkêw (The Sash Maker) | 8 min | Rebecca Sadowski (Métis) and Tamarra Lessard
Métis Femme Bodies | 6 min | Chanelle Lajoie (Métis)
Flood | 5 min | Amanda Strong (Michif (Metis))
I am Not | 2 min | Marcel Petit (Metis)
Tik-A-Lee-Kick | 3 min | Anna Celestrya-Carr (Metis/Anishinaabe)
Sweet Nightt | 7 min | Jessie Ray Short (Métis)
I am | 2 min | Marcel Petit (Metis)
The Beauty Within | 3 min | Cheryl L’Hirondelle (nêhiyaw/halfbreed)

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Strength in spirit ABOVE brings together five films that focus on the light that perforates the darkness, bringing notions of embodied healing and radical love forward. Narratives told from relatives and ancestors that give voice to holistic experiences, the real and the overcome.

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Embracing the medicine power held within both the underworld and dark corners of self, these shorts from all over the Indigenous world show the courage, grounding and strength found within hidden places.

Special thanks to our community Co-Presenters Skábmagovat

A space created for storytellers to share the echoes of their ancestors. Through these beats, we transcend back and forth through time to a deeper connection of honour.

Special thanks to our community Co-Presenters Tkaronto Music Festival (TKMF)

Look into the ways that Indigenous peoples are fighting for their communities through acts of protest, kindness, strength, and care.

Special thanks to our community Co-Presenters 2 Spirited People of the 1st Nations