New Indigenous Short Films from Canada (Adäka Cultural Festival)

This screening took place on Monday, July 4, 2022 at 4:00 pmYukon Theatre

New Indigenous Short films from the National Film Board of Canada.

Admission by donation.
6 short and mid-length films: documentary and animation.

Includes Arctic Song, Nalujuk Night, Evan’s Drum and I Am Indian Again: Mary Two Axe Earley.

ARCTIC SONG
DIR. GERMAINE ARNAKTAUYOK, NEIL CHRISTOPHER,
LOUISE FLAHERTY, 2021, NUNAVUT, 7 MINUTES
Arctic Song, by Inuit artist, storyteller and co-director Germaine Arnattaujuq (Arnaktauyok), is an animated short about Inuit creation stories from the Iglulik region in Nunavut.

EVAN’S DRUM
DIR. OSSIE MICHELIN, 2021, LABRADOR, 14 MINUTES
An adventurous young boy and his determined mother share a passion for Inuit drum dancing in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

TANTOO CARDINAL
DIR. DARLENE NAPONSE, 2021, ONTARIO, ENGLISH, 5 MINUTES
A portrait of actress Tantoo Cardinal, bearing witness to the many roles she’s played and her impact in shattering the glass ceiling for Indigenous artists.

NALUJUK NIGHT
DIR. JENNIE WILLIAMS, 2021, LABRADOR, 13 MINUTES
This documentary up-close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying,
Labrador Inuit tradition shows that it can be fun to be scared. Every January 6th from the dark of the Nunatsiavut night, the Nalujuit appear on the sea ice. They walk on two legs, yet their faces are animalistic, skeletal, and otherworldly.

MARY TWO-AXE EARLEY: I AM INDIAN AGAIN
DIR. COURTNEY MONTOUR, 2021, QUEBEC, ENGLISH, 34 MINUTES
The story of Indigenous women’s rights leader Mary Two-Axe Early, in her decades-long battle to end Canada’s racist and sexist Indian Act policies, which restored status to thousands of First Nations women and children.