Event Schedule

Fiction
Preceded by Diiyeghan naii Taii Tr’eedaa. As a meteorite catastrophically changes the planet outside, two lovers find (…)
Shorts Program
Exploring the universe inside and around us, this music video program vibrates with love, peace, and good medicine. Ridi (…)
Documentary
The Story of Fa’amoana John Luafutu tells the remarkable story of Fa’amoana’s time as a state ward in the 1960’s (…)
Special Event
The imagineNATIVE Awards Presentation is a celebration of excellence in Indigenous film and media arts. This event will (…)
Documentary
Life as a herder is hard and solitary, but the 82-year-old Iranian Firouzeh loves the ever-changing nature, the hard lif (…)
Fiction
Preceded by Brylcreem Boys. Angel prepares to leave the shelter for a new life, but soon after, she comes to face her bi (…)
Fiction
Joy Higgins — a survivor of domestic abuse — invites her friend Carmen Bazzoli on an Indigenous-led women’s weeken (…)
Awards Screening
imagineNATIVE showcases the award winning Documentary Feature recognized during Saturday afternoon’s Awards Presentati (…)
Awards Screening
imagineNATIVE showcases the award winning Drama Feature recognized during Saturday afternoon’s Awards Presentation! We (…)
Documentary
Preceded by The Original Shareholder Experience. “Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascotin (…)
Shorts Program
The iN Originals program includes the premiere of five short films created through imagineNATIVE Institute commissions a (…)
Documentary
Preceded by Tibi. This POV documentary narrated by director Trevor Solway begins with his earliest memories of his grand (…)
Documentary
In an Aymara community in the Peruvian southern Andes, an alpaquera family gathers to celebrate the ritual of “uywa ch (…)
Fiction
Preceded by Cerro Saturno. Elisban arrives in the city of Puno, too late to meet his friend Hermogenes, with whom he was (…)
Shorts Program
Short films that celebrate a youth perspective of the world. At times serious and surreal, but most often humorous and i (…)
Shorts Program
This program centres on visualizing Arctic land and life, featuring films from the circumpolar region. From Inuit creati (…)
Shorts Program
For Pasifika (Pacific Islanders), the popular adage “Water is Life” takes on a deeper meaning: The Great Ocean is th (…)
Shorts Program
Time travellers and celestial voyagers beware! We are going on a journey to the dark side of Indigenous cinema, with a c (…)
Shorts Program
Comprised of colourful and joyful animations, the films in this program visualize Indigenous cosmovision. They celebrate (…)
Shorts Program
This program is all about love — platonic, romantic, or familial. It celebrates the multiplicity of ways humans (and i (…)