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ALFF Shorts: Indigenous Land and Community Docs

Friday, February 14, 2025 at 6:00 pmYukon Theatre

Journey to Our Homeland

DIR. ADRIEN HARPELLE, 2024, ONTARIO, 24 MIN

In September 2019, Nibinamik First Nation Elders Tommy Yellowhead and Stephen Neshinapaise, both born at PinnaeMootang, were accompanied by a small group of youth and a Shebafilms crew as they travelled an historic canoe route to their birthplace. They paddled southward from Nibinamik First Nation to their old village site, with the journey and experiences captured for the film Journey to Our Homelands. Elders Tommy Yellowhead and Stephen Neshinapaise hope to inspire all Matawa First Nations to ‘think beyond the Indian Act’ and start reconnecting with each other through their lakes, rivers and trails, as they have done for millennia.
The film hopes to encourage other Matawa members to connect socially with each other through their waterways and trails in order to demonstrate the current and traditional land usage for all Matawa communities and First Nation members.

Genre: Documentary, Short

The Medzih Story: Restoring a Caribou Landscape

DIR. TREVOR DIXON BENNETT & RYAN DICKIE, 2024, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 20 MIN

The Medzih Story: Restoring a Caribou Landscape is a short film documenting the work one indigenous community is doing to help restore decades of industrial impacts on the land base as a mechanism to help stabilize boreal caribou populations. Located in Treaty 8 Territory in present day northeast British Columbia, the Fort Nelson First Nation find themselves at the ‘tip of the spear’ when it comes to repairing linear disturbances in caribou habitat. As Dene and Cree speaking peoples who have occupied this land since time immemorial, the initiative is an example of their everlasting responsibility to respect, and care for the land and animals that have sustained them forever.

Genre: Documentary, Short

Iniskim – Return of the Buffalo

DIR. LEANNE ALLISON, PETE BALKWILL, AMETHYST FIRST RIDER, 2024, ALBERTA, 39 MIN

Iniskim- Return of the Buffalo, is an intercultural artistic response to the return of the buffalo, as wild animals, to Western North America.

Genre: Documentary, Short

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