NEWS RELEASES

Oct 20 '23 (Virtual)
Flashing LightsRaya loves make up but her family does not. Torn between her dreams and her Papua New Guinean family’s strict religious beliefs, she finds comfort in her ancestors.
Oct 20 '23 (Virtual)
Eve is a line cook who is at the end of her rope. Burnt out and longing, for change she finds unexpected advice from a new hire named Isaac.
Oct 20 '23 (Virtual)
How far would you go to make your grandmother happy? A young Māori man ventures far outside his comfort zone to create an experience for his grandmother that she will never forget.
Oct 21 '23 (Virtual)
NudityAn experimental examination of threshold states. Moving through deep space time in underwater realms, mirrored bodies spiral, suspend and dance through te reo maori and nêhiyawêwin lamentations.
Oct 18 '23 (Virtual)
Oct 21 '23 (Virtual)
The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are re-imagined with hand-made animation, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.
Oct 18 '23 (Virtual)
Oct 18 '23 (Virtual)
Oct 20 '23 (Virtual)
Former model, Joleen Mitton is on a mission to use fashion as medicine for Vancouver’s Indigenous community. She takes us inside Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, a multifaceted celebration of traditional and contemporary Indigenous identity.
Oct 21 '23 (Virtual)
An exploration and reinterpretation of the chontal people’s mystic ceremony of rain pleading.