NEWS RELEASES

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 18 '23 9:15 PM – 11:15 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
The short films that make up the Witness series are produced by Indigenous filmmakers in their own home communities. They focus on climate change and how it is affecting their everyday lives and traditional livelihoods in the Arctic.
Oct 22 '23 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM (TBLB 1 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
Feature
WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) explores how children of Indian Residential School survivors — including three generations of director Dr. Jules Koostachin’s own family — are moving beyond the burden of intergenerational trauma and into healing.
Oct 20 '23 2:30 PM – 3:59 PM (TBLB 4 - TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Oct 23 -29 (Virtual)
The imagineNATIVE Institute welcomes APTN Lumi, along with past participants of the imagineNATIVE + APTN Lumi Web Series Pitch, to the Industry Days stage for the premiere of Tales From the Rez and D dot H. This screening will be followed by a moderated Q&A where the Artists will discuss the motivation behind and the creation of their projects.
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.