Featured Films (in alphabetical order):<ul><li>Oceanbone&nbsp;(OC)</li><li>Snk'mip Dig Deeper (CC)</li><li>We Are Made from the Land (CC)</li></ul>Total run time: 109 minutes

Across oceans and centuries, Indigenous ancestors remain trapped in museum vaults—stolen, studied, and silenced. Oceanbone is a visually haunting and deeply personal journey into the fight for repatriation, where history, poetry, and activism collide. Anchored by a powerful interview with repatriation scholar Dr. Tarisi Vunidilo, the film interweaves the voices of four Native Pacific Island storytellers who channel the spirits of their ancestors, speaking in rhythms of loss, resistance, and homecoming. Through striking imagery of museum corridors, ancestral rituals, and the vast Pacific, Oceanbone reveals the colonial legacies that displaced these remains—and the urgent movement to return them. As the waves carry their names once more, the film stands as both an elegy and a call to justice: the ancestors must go home.

Oceanbone (OC)

Stolen ancestors lie in museum vaults, waiting to return home. Oceanbone is a poetic reckoning with history, confronting the colonial theft of Indigenous remains and the urgent fight to bring them back.

When a conservation group restores a marsh in British Columbia, they uncover its past as an ancient Sinixt village. Snk̓míp Dig Deeper traces their alliance with the Autonomous Sinixt, led by Matriarch Marilyn James, as ecological restoration becomes a journey of truth, tension, and transformation. Co-directed by settler and Indigenous women, the film challenges colonial narratives and redefines what it means to care for land that was never ceded.

Snk'mip Dig Deeper

A wetland restoration project takes an unexpected turn when they discover the land is an ancient Indigenous village, triggering a clash between settler ideals, suppressed Indigenous laws, and the living descendants of a people Canada still deems extinct.

We Are Made from the Land illuminates the little known history of the Dene and Crew people of the Seal River Watershed in Manitoba, and their struggle to restore their place as guardians of their traditional territories. Three generations share stories of resilience: one generation that faced forced relocation and separation from their lands; the next generation that grew up with the trauma of the aftermath; and today, a new generation that is taking the lead to ensure that these lands and water - including the wildlife and people that depend on them - can thrive not only now but into the future.

We Are Made from the Land

Forced from their land decades ago, the Dene people of the Seal River Watershed fight to reclaim their place as stewards of their ancestral territory.

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