Short Film Program: KIN TIES
Woven together by language, whispers, hair, and sacrifice, KIN TIES explores our relationships to the ancestors and to the land. Film viewing availability during the online Festival (June 9-15, 2025): My Braid is Beautiful (available worldwide) Do You Speak Paiute? (available worldwide) Anishinaabemowin (only in Ontario) Redbird (only in North America) KÜĪ (only in Canada) Hydraulic (only in Ontario) Tiger (available worldwide)
In-Person
TIFF Lightbox - Cinema 2
Jun 05
Virtual
Virtual
Jun 09
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Presented in Multiple Parts
My Braid is Beautiful – Gnaajwan Nkaadengan
My Braid Is Beautiful - Gnaajwan Nkaadengan tells the story of the beauty and connection of a braid in the Nat...
| Larissa Wrightman | World Premiere | Ojibwe, English
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Do You Speak Paiute?
Answering the question 'Do you speak Paiute?' with a glimpse into the filmmaker's family life shows how commun...
| Taylor Uchytil | World Premiere | English
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Anishinaabemowin
A young Ojibwe girl learns how to say goodbye in her traditional language when her grandmother falls ill....
| Shaelyn Johnston | Ontario Premiere | English, Ojibwe
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Redbird
A Cherokee woman fights to protect her niece from an unlawful adoption by her white grandparents as she reckon...
| Emma Barrow | World Premiere | Cherokee, English
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KÜĪ
In the face of her mother's absence and her father's alcoholism, 12-year-old Küī rises above her age, caring...
| Kahu KAIHA | Canadian Premiere | Samoan, Èo Ènana, English
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Hydraulic
Harry is torn from tending to his bedridden mother by his erratic and sticky-fingered father who takes him on ...
| Nicole Hutton-Lewis | North American Premiere | English
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Tiger
Tiger highlights Dana Tiger — an Indigenous, award-winning, internationally acclaimed artist and Elder — h...
| Loren Waters | Canadian Premiere | English
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