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Stories of our most sacred and preciuos beings facing a spectrum of insurmountable odds with strength and resiliency that is imbedded ancestrally within them from generations before them.
These shorts programs may differentiate from the shorts programs presented at our in-person festival screenings due to the various geoblocking restraints on each film.
Braids follows a young Native American boy, Raven, who grapples with identity, tradition, and societal pressures in a world that often misunderstands his heritage, forcing him to balance cultural integrity with conforming to societal expectations.
Elise Beers Aachix̂ Qağaduug is an enrolled member of the Unangax̂ (Unangan/Aleut) Native American Tribe and a dynamic dancer and choreographer with EarthWorks Dance Company.
- Year2025
- Runtime14 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Lakota, Navajo
- CountryUSA
- PremiereToronto Premiere
- GenreShort, Fiction
- Content WarningTriggering Historical Trauma (Residential Schools, Indian Act, Sixties Scoop)
- DirectorElise Beers Aachix̂ Qağaduug (Aleut/Unanga)
- ScreenwriterElise Beers Aachix̂ Qağaduug (Aleut/Unanga)
- ProducerBryson Alejandro, Jekeva Phillips
Stories of our most sacred and preciuos beings facing a spectrum of insurmountable odds with strength and resiliency that is imbedded ancestrally within them from generations before them.
These shorts programs may differentiate from the shorts programs presented at our in-person festival screenings due to the various geoblocking restraints on each film.
Braids follows a young Native American boy, Raven, who grapples with identity, tradition, and societal pressures in a world that often misunderstands his heritage, forcing him to balance cultural integrity with conforming to societal expectations.
Elise Beers Aachix̂ Qağaduug is an enrolled member of the Unangax̂ (Unangan/Aleut) Native American Tribe and a dynamic dancer and choreographer with EarthWorks Dance Company.
- Year2025
- Runtime14 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Lakota, Navajo
- CountryUSA
- PremiereToronto Premiere
- GenreShort, Fiction
- Content WarningTriggering Historical Trauma (Residential Schools, Indian Act, Sixties Scoop)
- DirectorElise Beers Aachix̂ Qağaduug (Aleut/Unanga)
- ScreenwriterElise Beers Aachix̂ Qağaduug (Aleut/Unanga)
- ProducerBryson Alejandro, Jekeva Phillips
