This Ink Runs Deep - Directed by Asia Youngman | 16 min | Canada
This Ink Runs Deep features indigenous tattoo artists from across Canada who are reviving ancestral traditions that disappeared during colonization. Through the film, we learn about the practices that were thought to be lost forever, and how their revival reflects a reawakening of indigenous identity.
Haven - Directed by Colin Askey | 18 min | Canada
Lynda, an indigenous woman dealing with the loss of both of her sons, and Max, the sole survivor of a horrific car accident, are patients at the Crosstown Clinic in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. As participants in a radical opioid-assisted therapy program, the first of its kind in North America, they are provided with medical-grade heroin, a safe place to inject.
What Are You? - Directed by Richard B. Pierre | 20 min | Canada
What Are You? is a short documentary that explores the lives of multiracial people as they reveal the struggles of living in a racially divided world.
Invasion: The Unist'ot'en's Fight for Sovereignty - Directed by Michael Toledano & Sam Vinal | 18 min | Canada
In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. Invasion is verité cinematic experience about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet'suwet'en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous peoples.
Ballet After Dark - Directed by Barbara K. Asare-Bediako | 19 min | United States
This short documentary combines the realness of cinema verite and videologue with the sometimes imaginary world of social media and animation content to follow the journey of a trauma survivor’s attempt to create a healing space in present day Baltimore.