Bootlegger

Registration is required and is limited to 800 viewers.

For Mature Audiences: Contains coarse language and brief nudity.

Two radically opposed women divide their community into two sides over the free sale of alcohol, confronting each other to determine the best path to independence.

Daughter of a Lost Bird

An adult Native adoptee reconnects with her birth family, discovers her Lummi heritage, and confronts issues of her own identity. Feature is preceded by SŪKŪJULA TEI (Stories of My Mother) and Nahasdzáán (Earth).

Emergence Shorts Program

Stories of how the past can help us navigate an uncertain future.

Future-Focused Shorts Program

Family-friendly short films that are fun for kids of all ages.

Imagining the Indian

Registration is required and is limited to 1000 viewers.

A comprehensive examination of the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find demeaning and offensive. Special support for Imagining the Indian is provided by The Ciesla Foundation.

In Memoriam: A Conversation with Jeff Barnaby, Mi'kmaq (1976–2022)

A conversation with Blood Quantum film director, Jeff Barnaby, recorded for Native Cinema Showcase 2020.

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

An intimate portrait of survival, love, and the collective work of healing in the Kainai First Nation in Southern Alberta, a Blackfoot community facing the impacts of substance use and a drug-poisoning epidemic.

Portraits from a Fire

A coming-of-age tale about inherited trauma, family, acceptance, and defiance.

Rise Above Shorts Program

These shorts focus on the realities of rising above adversity and learning life’s lessons.

Twisted Tales Shorts Program

Shorts that invite viewers into spooky, creepy, and unfamiliar tales from an Indigenous perspective.

Warrior Spirit

For Mature Audiences: Contains triggering scenes of rapid weight loss.

A shocking exposé on the extreme weight-cutting measures motivated by the UFC.