Not Rated | 98 minutes | 2025 | Shorts Program
The 2025 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour returns with a 98-minute theatrical program featuring seven short films from Indigenous filmmakers: six from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival program and one short film from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Tiger / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Loren Waters, Producer: Dana Tiger) — A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company. Nonfiction.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return / Canada (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Amanda Strong, Screenwriters: Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Richard Van Camp, Producers: Maral Mohammadian, Nina Werewka) — Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine, Inkwo, to protect their community from an unearthed swarm of terrifying creatures. Cast: Paulina Alexis, Tantoo Cardinal, Art Napoleon. Animated.
Stranger, Brother. / Australia (Director and Screenwriter: Annelise Hickey, Producers: Tessa Mansfield-Hung, Josie Baynes) — When Adam, a self-absorbed and lonely millennial, wakes one morning to find his estranged half brother on his doorstep, he must face the family he’s been running away from. Cast: Tiaki Teremoana, Samson Uili, Charly Thorn, Patrick Livesey. Fiction.
Field Recording / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Quinne Larsen, Producer: Louie Zong) — A meandering joke about three dreams. Cast: Quinne Larsen, Louie Zong. Animated.
En Memoria / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Roberto Fatal, Screenwriter and Producer: Ali Meyers-Ohki, Producer: Leah Dubuc) — In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress. Cast: Leslie Martinez, Frédérique LaTour, Jennifer Rader. Fiction.
Lea Tupu’anga / Mother Tongue / New Zealand (Director: Vea Mafile’o, Screenwriter: Luciane Buchanan, Producers: Alex Lovell, Eldon Booth) — A young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her Tongan language skills to get a job. Out of her depth, she must find a way to communicate or risk her patient’s life. Cast: Luciane Buchanan, Albert Rounds, Mikey Falesiu, Michael Koloi, Elizabeth Thomson. Fiction.
Vox Humana / Philippines, U.S.A., Singapore (Director and Screenwriter: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Producers: Hannah Schierbeek, Alemberg Ang) — An eccentric biologist interrogates a wild man who was found in the forest after an earthquake hit a small mountain town. Cast: Sasa Cabalquinto, Ymeiliza Tabora, Bruce Venida. Fiction.
In various languages with English subtitles.
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