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Short Films Block

"Dibaajimowin - Indigenous Shorts"

Showtime: Fri, Feb 10th @ 12:00 PM
"Dibaajimowin" is the teaching of a story. These films represent Indigenous wisdom
from local storytellers and filmmakers from across Turtle Island.
Screening followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.

Resiliency is Inherited

Synopsis:

Mni Sota Makoce is the ancestral land of the Dakota peoples. This land looks very different now than it once did. While walking down the streets of Gakaabikaang (Minneapolis) we see glimpses of what this land could have looked like before colonialism and capitalism overtook...

Seeds

Synopsis:

Without parents to guide them, Loretta and Raven reflect on the love their parents modeled and the grief of their loss. While one finds catharsis in their mother’s old VHS camera the other struggles with a potential pregnancy...

Carrying the Fire

Synopsis:

After the defeat of the Sandpiper Pipeline in Northern Minnesota, Water Protectors return to protect the water, and each other, when Line 3 begins construction...

Oshkigin Spirit of Fire

Synopsis:

For thousands of years in the Great Lakes Region, Native Americans used fire intentionally to manage the ecosystems they lived in. Oshkigin Spirit of Fire highlights this deep, reciprocal relationship with the land and the role fire plays in that relationship...

Chase to a Certain Place

Synopsis:

Rabbit must make choices when they encounter a new being that disrupts their life...

Kicking the Clouds

Synopsis:

My mother discusses a 50 year old cassette tape of her grandmother giving her mother a Pechanga language lesson. Touching on Indigenous diaspora in the United States and homeland, these stories and these interviews move around issues of identity and place through intersections of historical and present memory...

Kicking the Clouds

Synopsis:

A Native police officer, who is doubting her traditional faith, is called to a possible burglary but is met by a supernatural entity that leads her to a buried secret...