First Nations Film and Video Festival

Schedule:

1:00pm

Small Talk (3:46)
A music video for the song Small Talk, from the debut album of the same name by Copeland James.
Simone Hile-Bassett (Anishinaabe: Fond du Lac Band of Minnesota Chippewa)

Living for Others (14:56)
Told in a nonlinear order, a woman about to move to Berlin for her husband's work has a bizarre nightmare, and meets a stranger with an eerily similar experience.
Simone Hile-Bassett (Anishinaabe: Fond du Lac Band of Minnesota Chippewa)

Memoria de un pez (14:00)
Mario a forty-year-old man, is recovering in a hospital room after having tried to end his life. There he meets Andrea, a little girl who does not want to continue her medical treatment and just wants to escape with Pepe, her fish.  Mario personal childhood story is intertwined with the lake where Andrea wants to take Pepe. But not only Mario and Andrea will have to reach the lake, they will also have to discover and forgive their human limitations in order to transform and see their loved ones.
Pato Alfaro Rivera, Cesar    Alfaro (Nayarit - México)

LA ULTIMA MOLA  (Mor nabbi duggugi yolesad)(05:13)
BURSOB is the last indigenous woman of her ethnic group. After almost all of humanity became extinct due to a strange disease, she made a trip to her region that had also disappeared. Upon arrival she decides to dress in the last garment of her indigenous culture. A mole from her grandmother.

BURSOB es la ùltima mujer indígena de su ètnia. Luego de casi extinguirse toda la humanidad por un extraña enfermedad realiza un viaje a su comarca que también a desaparecido. Al llegar decide vestirse con la ùltima prenda de su cultura indígena. Una mola de su abuela.   

Ornel Alvarado, Roberto Villafane (Guna)

Kintohpatatin(Justice)-Chéng誠(Honesty)(Hui/Baedak,'24)    0:05:59

Commissioned by TMU CERC in Migration & Integration #WhereWeStand Project Synopsis: “Kintohpatatin(Justice)-Chéng誠(Honesty)” is a collaborative Indigenous-settler co-created short film borne out of friendship, respect, understanding, and trust. Through juxtaposing stunning natural and experimental split-screen visuals, auto-biographical haikus and reflections on Indigenous natural law, we explore principles of honesty and justice amidst the realities that impact our lives as Indigenous and migrant peoples on Turtle Island. We invite viewers to examine their stance on past, current and future Indigenous-settler relationality.

Logline: Co-created through textural auto-biographical haikus and justice-seeking storytelling, "Kintohpatatin(Justice)-Chéng誠(Honesty)" compels viewers to examine Indigenous-settler relations encompassing the historical, relational, socio-legal, political, environmental and the self.  Audio and Visual Treatment: This collaborative visual bricolage offers stunning natural and experimental visuals and split-screens, which are paired with Indigenous drumming by Baedek, which signifies the heartbeat amongst many Indigenous communities, and original composition by Stephen Laing.    

Christian Hui, Andrea Baedak (Maskekon Cree-Michif)

Water, Star Medicine (10 minute version with 15% NASA footage)    0:10:00
Dr. Lisa Spencer assigns her Santa Fe middle school students the study of water. They traveled to sites to explore the Rio Grande, drought in New Mexico, and farming in the desert by early Pueblo peoples. Interviews were conducted that include the research of New Zealand Māori Scientist, Veda Austin. This film also explores water beyond the science realm to include the emotional, historic, and spiritual power of water. It also explores water being from outer space, perhaps from asteroids, and the study of water on Mars. About 10% of the footage is from various NASA stock footage. This film won Audience Choice Award for middle school films in New Mexico.

MESA/ Turquoise Trail Middle School Students (Apache, Hopi, Puebloan, Diné, Yu'pik)

The Electric Indian (57:00)
Hockey legend Henry Boucha journeys from early stardom to crushing defeat to healing.
Leya Hale (Director): Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota

Total: 1:50:54