Uasheshkun
A father tries to save the soul of his daughter, lost in darkness. Normand Junior Thirnish-Pilot is an Indigenous screenwriter and director from the community of Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam in Côte-Nord, Québec, Canada.
HST REBATE: Status card holders are eligible to claim a rebate of the 8% Ontario portion of HST paid on qualifying goods and services. Please contact boxoffice@imagineNATIVE.org if you wish to use your Status card to purchase packages or tickets online. You can also visit the on-site imagineNATIVE Box Office during the in-person Festival and present your Status card when purchasing in-person tickets.
Buy Tickets
Presented as Part Of Short Film Program: WITCHING HOUR
Uncommon Ground
Set in the Coast Salish region of the Pacific Northwest, 150 years in the future, the true history of North Am...
20 min | Faith Sparrow-Crawford | Ontario Premiere | English
Learn MoreUasheshkun
A father tries to save the soul of his daughter, lost in darkness....
9 min | Normand Junior Thirnish-Pilot | N/A | Innu
Learn MoreSettler
This allegorical horror film is about a 1800s settler family on the “frontier” hoping to establish a prosp...
11 min | Sinakson Trevor Solway | Ontario Premiere | English, Blackfoot
Learn MoreHaze Over
Musa, takes Vahid, his cousin, on pretext of wood smuggling, to a forest path, where a car accident with a doe...
19 min | Seyed Ali Ghasemi | Canadian Premiere | Persian
Learn MoreInkwo for When the Starving Return
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unb...
18 min | Amanda Strong | N/A | English, Dene
Learn MoreThe Saint and The Bear
Rita sits alone on a park bench waiting for something, or someone, when she is unexpectedly approached by a Ma...
6 min | Dallas R Soonias | N/A | English
Learn More