In the Peruvian highlands, he lives with his dog, Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent, dedicated to selling sweets. As the rainy season begins, she recounts passages from her life, until one afternoon something fatal happens that seems to make heaven cry.
Regina Premiere
Islands
A coming-of-middle-age film about a timid Filipino immigrant struggling with the care of an elderly parent while managing his first experience of puppy love.
O Ovo (The egg)
In a dystopian Brazil, where the entire population is infertile and ruled by a populist dictatorship, a married couple a maid and a baker can’t agree on how to name their daughter, exposing structural problems in their marriage and in society.
Dirty Laundry
Kayla Mak Harrison aspires to become a filmmaker, but she faces additional stigma regarding her mental health. As a Chinese person, her culture dictates she must suppress emotions to achieve harmonious relationships at all costs. This documentary examines the roots of this deep-seated shame, how it affects family relations and its consequences on the individual and the community.
Pili Ka Moʻo
The Fukumitsu ʻOhana (family) of Hakipuʻu are Native Hawaiian taro farmers and keepers of this generational practice. While much of Oʻahu has become urbanized, Hakipuʻu remains a kīpuka (oasis) of traditional knowledge where great chiefs once resided and their bones still remain. The Fukumitsus are tossed into a world of complex real estate and judicial proceedings when nearby Kualoa Ranch, a large settler-owned corporation, destroys their familial burials to make way for continued development
Weckuwapasihtit (Those Yet to Come)
On the Eastern reaches of the occupied territory now referred to as North America, the children of Koluskap call upon ancestral teachings to guide them. Revitalizing cultural practices kept from their elders, Peskotomuhkati young people lead an intergenerational process of healing through the reclamation of athasikuwi-pisun, "tattoo medicine."