Started in 2021 as a virtual presentation in conjunction with museums, Native cultural centers, and arthouse cinemas, the 2025 tour continues as an in-person exhibition in the USA with partnered screenings in June. The program will be available to rent July 2025–March 2026. Screenings are supported by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Honolulu Museum of Art
Honolulu, HI
June 21, 2025
Cinedoom
Santa Fe, NM
June 28, 2025
Vidiots
Los Angeles, CA
June 29–30, 2025
Tulsa Film Collective
Tulsa, OK
July 9, 2025
Program
Tiger / U.S.A.
Director: Loren Waters
A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company. Winner of the Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing. Nonfiction.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return / Canada
Director: Amanda Strong
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine, Inkwo, to protect their community from an unearthed swarm of terrifying creatures. Fiction.
Stranger, Brother. / Australia
Director: Annelise Hickey
When Adam, a self-absorbed and lonely millennial, wakes one morning to find his estranged half brother on his doorstep, he must face the family he’s been running away from. Fiction.
Field Recording / U.S.A.
Director: Quinne Larsen
A meandering joke about three dreams. Fiction.
En Memoria / U.S.A.
Director: Roberto Fatal
In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress. Fiction.
Lea Tupu’anga / Mother Tongue / New Zealand
Director: Vea Mafile’o
A young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her Tongan language skills to get a job. Out of her depth, she must find a way to communicate or risk her patient’s life.
Vox Humana / Philippines, U.S.A., Singapore
Director: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
An eccentric biologist interrogates a wild man who was found in the forest after an earthquake hit a small mountain town. Fiction.
