Fierce transformation that grounds us in origina and sets the feminine free. These shorts programs may differentiate from the shorts programs presented at our in-person festival screenings due to the various geoblocking restraints on each film.

A Laura Ortman music video.&nbsp; Blackhorse Lowe is a filmmaker from the Navajo Nation whose films focus on Native stories.

All My Love & Thanks

Ixquic, an Indigenous teenager, rejects her mother’s fight to protect a threatened river. When the river begins to bleed and ancestral forces awaken, she must reconcile her identity with the legacy she denied in order to defend her territory. Elvis Caj, Mayan filmmaker, Open Doors and Talents alumnus, and founder of Ancestral Films, is currently developing his debut feature Hiñaru Duna. ﻿

Ixquic

An Indigenous girl afraid to laugh finds empowerment through a liberating retelling of a myth about a woman punished for laughing and discovers joy as resistance against those who oppress her. Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí is an Embera Chamí filmmaker, Berlinale Special Mention winner, San Sebastián and Annecy participant, and co-founder of the Luminti collective.

Akababuru: Expression of astonishment

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Short Film Program: Fierce Femmes

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