2025 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour
- Sun, Jun 29
- Mon, Jun 30
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Run Time: 98 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
The 2025 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour is a 98-minute theatrical program featuring 7 short films from Indigenous filmmakers: six from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and one from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Started in 2021 as a virtual presentation in conjunction with our friends at museums, Native cultural centers, and arthouse cinemas, the 2025 tour continues as an in-person exhibition with partnered screenings in June.
The curated selection reflects a variety of Native stories and showcases inventive, original storytelling from indigenous artists previously supported by the Festival. Sundance Institute has a long history of supporting and launching talented Indigenous directors including Erica Tremblay, Taika Waititi, Blackhorse Lowe, Sterlin Harjo, Sky Hopinka, Caroline Monnet, Fox Maxy, and Shaandiin Tome.
Program
Tiger / U.S.A.
Director: Loren Waters
A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company. Winner of the Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing. Nonfiction.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return / Canada
Director: Amanda Strong
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine, Inkwo, to protect their community from an unearthed swarm of terrifying creatures. Fiction.
Stranger, Brother. / Australia
Director: Annelise Hickey
When Adam, a self-absorbed and lonely millennial, wakes one morning to find his estranged half brother on his doorstep, he must face the family he’s been running away from. Fiction.
Field Recording / U.S.A.
Director: Quinne Larsen
A meandering joke about three dreams. Fiction.
En Memoria / U.S.A.
Director: Roberto Fatal
In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress. Fiction.
Lea Tupu’anga / Mother Tongue / New Zealand
Director: Vea Mafile’o
A young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her Tongan language skills to get a job. Out of her depth, she must find a way to communicate or risk her patient’s life.
Vox Humana / Philippines, U.S.A., Singapore
Director: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
An eccentric biologist interrogates a wild man who was found in the forest after an earthquake hit a small mountain town. Fiction.
Screenings are supported by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.