Guest-curated by filmmaker and film programmer Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk) this program offers a survey of short films navigating aspects of Indigenous Futurism as it relates to concepts of time, culture, and survival. Weaving through the future, present, and past, each of these works propose new ways of interpreting Indigeneity beyond the confines of settler colonialism and toward new realities that push into the unexpected. Whether interrogating pop culture or questioning Western scientific thought, these works offer a showcase of some of the most exciting voices in Indigenous Cinema through some of their most cutting-edge films. 

New Myth (dir. Cannupa Hanska Luger, 2022) 

Po’ele Wai | As The Water Darkens (dir. Tiare Ribeaux, 2022) 

Do Digital Curanderas Use Eggs In Their Limpias (dir. Rob Fatal, 2023) 

Blue Communiqué (dir. Adam Khalil, Maria Meinild, and Walter Scott, 2021) 

The Original Shareholder Experience (dir. Petyr Xyst, 2021) 

Out of Nothing (dir. Alexandra Lazarowich and Janna Kyllastinen, 2018) 

Short films followed by: 

Night Raiders (2021) 

Set in a dystopian version of North America in the year 2044, the film centers on Niska, a Cree woman who joins a resistance movement against the oppressive military government in order to save her daughter. 

Directed by Danis Goulet | Starring Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart, and Alex Tarrant