Online Screening Info: Available to view 10 am on June 19 through 12 am on June 21.
PŌNEKE
Directed by, Ruby Mae Hinepunui Solly (Kai Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha), Sebastian J Lowe, Victoria Baskin Coffey. (New Zealand, 2020, 7:31)
Pōneke is a modern love letter to place, space and time within a post second-migration world.
Film screened in the Homage To Our Lands short films program.
ECOLOGIES OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Directed by Sarah Kanouse, Nicholas Brown. (USA, 2019, 9:56).
How do you acknowledge Native territory and accept the relationships and responsibilities that come with living on occupied land? Deer Island in the Boston Harbor—once a concentration camp, now home to the city’s wastewater treatment plant, functions as a crucible for eco-political relationships connecting past, present, and future.
Film screened in the Homage To Our Lands short films program.
DREAMING OF JERUSALEM
Directed by Peter Decherney, Sosena Solomon. (USA 2020, 25:00)
An intimate look at the Jewish community in Gondar, Ethiopia, where people have been waiting for 20 years to emigrate to Israel and continue to face discrimination from all sides as they cultivate their Jewish identity.
Film screened in the Homage To Our Lands short films program.
ALMOST AN ISLAND
Directed by Directed by Jonathan VanBallenberghe. (USA 2020, 56:46.)
Elmer Goodwin was raised in a sod igloo, wearing animal skins and traveling by dog sled. Now he rides a snow machine and his children are half white. This multi-generational portrait shows an Inupiaq family preserving its subsistence lifestyle despite the dramatic threats facing Arctic Alaska.
Film screened in the Homage To Our Lands short films program.