A Gwich’in grandfather teaches his granddaughter how reciprocity is embedded in our lives.

Diiyeghan naii Taii Tr’eedaa (We Will Walk the Trail of our Ancestors)

Damon Dunbar works to remediate the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian boarding school shut down in the early 1980s by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Restoring Néške'emāne

Revitalizing practices kept from their elders, Peskotomuhkati youth lead an intergenerational process of healing through athasikuwi-pisun, "tattoo medicine."

Weckuwapasihtit (Those Yet to Come)

A Native Hawaiian taro farming family is drawn into a logistically and emotionally complex quest to preserve their ancestral land.

Pili Ka Mo’o

The film examines the intersections of history, spirituality, colonialism, and contemporary archaeology through the experiences of archaeologists and Native Californians brought together by an excavation.

Unearthed

90% of the available lands in the Greater Chaco have already been leased for oil and gas extraction. Over the course of three years, Navajo and Pueblo leadership have been intimately collaborating to tell their stories in this film as they struggle to protect what little remains of this sacred landscape, including the World Heritage Site Chaco National Historical Park in the southwest United States.

Our Story - The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco

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The 17th Annual Durango Independent Film Festival spotlights independent films of all genres; Narrative features and shorts, animated, documentary features and shorts, Native cinema, adventure, LGBTQ, and family films. 

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