Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival

  • Release date: April 26, 2024 (limited)
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Synopsis

April 26–28, 2024

Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival (DIIFF) was first presented in Edmonton in 1992 and was the first Indigenous film Festival in Canada. It was founded by Indigenous filmmakers and creatives in response to the growing industry and to support Indigenous representation in film and media. The name “Dreamspeakers” was derived from a story about the first Dene film maker who returned home to his community in the north and was struggling to talk to the Elders about his work, because a word for filmmaker did not exist in their language. The Elders understood and called it Dreamtalking. We adapted our name from this story.

Schedule:

April 26th @ 11AM – Family Friendly Animation Shorts
April 26th @ 1PM – Indigenous Ways of Being Shorts
April 26th @ 3PM – Indigitech Stories: Itu Ninu with Radio Bingo & Nautilus
April 26th @ 5PM – Preserving Our Place & ON SUSPICION: Zokunentu
April 27th @ 10AM – Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun with Shorts: Huli; Running Rabbit; Ancestral Threads
April 27th @ 12:30PM – Residential School Stories: Remembering the Children: The Red Deer Indian Industrial School & Bimibatoo-win: Where I Ran
April 27th @ 2:30PM – Women’s Story Shorts: Ohskennón:ten Owí:ra (Little Deer); NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind); Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher
April 27th @ 4PM – Lii Michif Niiyanaan – We Are Metis with Filmmaker Talkback
April 27th @ 6PM – Finding Justice: Métis Families’ Experience with the Criminal Justice System with Justice Shorts
April 27th @ 9PM – Songs of Kamui
April 28th @ 10AM – The Food; Yashar; Allira
April 28th @ 11:30AM – Preserving Culture Shorts: Nya’waap Illyuw Uuchyuwp—Our Way of Knowing; The Traveler; Canoe Connections; Warrior Up!
April 28th @ 1:30PM – Because She’s Adopted with Winding Path
April 28th @ 4PM – Atikamekw Suns with MMIWG2S Shorts: Spirit Girl; Crush; NATIVE HOPE CHAMPIONS: Riding for the Missing
April 28th @ 7PM – 2 Spirit Stories: re-ken-si-le-a-shen with Aikāne