Short Programs 2: Tâpwêwin (Ācimowin Film Festival)

Thursday, June 19, 2025
4:00 PM / Broadway Theatre

Doors Open at 3:30 PM.  Films start at 4:00 PM.  Runtime is 94 min.

Short Films Program 2 includes: 

Fear of the Indian 

The theme of ignorance is meant to reveal how mainstream media covers the Indigenous community in mainstream media. Many factors contribute to how and why mainstream media doesn’t tell stories about Indigenous people fairly. The main factor being lack of information and education about Indigenous people. How does mainstream media portray Indigenous people in the media and has it improved in the past three decades? The overall subject of the larger overall documentary is how mainstream media portrays Indigenous people in Canada.

Witness: Arctic Indigenous Voices 

 Inuit without snow. Windmills over reindeer. Coastal erosion. Overconsumption. Salmon fishing bans. Witness: Arctic Indigenous Voices tells five powerful stories from the frontlines of climate change, where Arctic Indigenous communities fight for survival and the future they want to see. 

My Braid is Beautiful - Gnaajwan Nkaadengan

 Gnaajwan Nkaadengan - "My Braid Is Beautiful - Gnaajwan Nkaadengan" is a visual poem exploring the deep connection between identity, relationships, and community through the power of a braid. Weaving together strength, beauty, and cultural pride, the film honours the significance of language revitalization, emphasizing how tradition and belonging endure through the simple yet profound act of braiding.

God and Devils

CONFLUENCE

Transmissions of creation among the echoes of our ancestors guides new waves of storytelling in this unconventional 16mm film.

cadèwašteya

An experimental digital collage flow of consciousness collaboration. cadèwašteya is the Nakota word that means with a good heart. Sharing personal notions of the heart this piece was a collective form of grieving and healing.

Michif Land - Based Knowledge 

A short film highlighting Indigenous beadwork, prairie landscapes and relationship to the land. Synopsis: Weaving shots of historical and contemporary Métis beadwork with intricate flashes of prairie landscape, and native plants this film explores relationship to the land through a place-based tactile knowledge. Featuring beadwork from Lor Brand and Jennine Krauchi this knowledge is shared throughout the film. 

Entropy

The vast Greenlandic ice sheet has been created over thousands of years but today climate change is threatening the close and sacred connection between the land molded by ice and the Inuit who live there. Told from an Indigenous perspective the film celebrates Greenlandic mythology as much as it laments the nature we are all losing.

Sally has a Posse

"Sally" is a collective that brings many creative youth together on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in what is now considered Arizona. The film follows Gio and other indigenous creators asking what it means to dream in the desert. Following the death of one of Sally's founders, Gio comes to terms with how their movement has explored their collective identity in skateboarding, tattoos, heavy metal music, and clothing design.