We see a mother doing household chores while her daughter is playing carefree. A voice-over talks to her own mother, sharing happy and painful memories and awakening deep wounds passed down from generation to generation.
Indigenous
Coming Home (Wanna Icipus Kupi)
Coming Home (Wanna Icipus Kupi) reveals the impacts of the Sixties Scoop and explores Indigenous resilience through narrative sovereignty; as lived by the Little Bird series’ Indigenous creatives, cast, crew & community members. Delivering a hard-hitting reality check for viewers unfamiliar with the Sixties Scoop, providing insight into the policies that were created to separate Indigenous children from their heritage, and the systems that continue to dismantle Indigenous families today.
The Fighter (Nin Kamashitshet)
André-Charles is a boxer. Sports changed his life. He hopes his journey will inspire others to regain their pride and hold their heads high when facing life's adversities.
ReCRUMBciliation
In a world where two unique civilizations, the Lactarians a society with a milk based economy and the Crumbians creatures made of cookie dough meet in a cosmic clash, misunderstandings and conflict ensue. The arrival of cookie-like beings on the milk-based planet sparks a war, with both sides using inventive dairy and cookie weaponry. However, indigenous tribes living harmoniously with their environment realize the true threat to their planet's ecosystem.
I Plowed the Sacred Soil
I Plowed the Sacred Soil is a feature-length documentary about the File Hills Farm Colony Experiment on the Peepeekisis Cree Nation. Descendants of this Saskatchewan Treaty Four reserve talk about their families’ struggle to maintain a farming community under the original treaty agreement of 1874. The story focuses on William Morris Graham, a government-appointed Indian Agent and his 1898 “failed” attempt to solve the “Indian problem.”
istén:’a
A recounting of a visit from my mother in spirit, this film looks to dreamspace as a meeting place, where we can connect with our loved ones, who we are always tethered to.