Aloni
A young student heads back to his village during the COVID-19 lockdown to collect ethnographic material for his thesis, but as quarantine stretches on, the rituals and everyday scenes he records start bringing back childhood memories-leading him to piece the footage together into something more personal.
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Director Malakye Tsosie explores his identity through the Navajo language. A language that is spoken less frequently over the generations. However, the resilience of the language breathes through his journey with a small Navajo radio station, his family relatives, and the people of the Navajo Nation.
Catalunya Nord: el català, a judici
We Will Speak
The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas have forced the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes to declare a State of Emergency for the language in 2019. While there are 430,000 Cherokee citizens in the three federally recognized tribes, fewer than an estimated 2,000 fluent speakers remain—the majority of whom are elderly. The covid pandemic has unfortunately hastened the course. Language activists, artists, and the youth must now lead the charge of urgent radical revitalization efforts to help save the language from the brink of extinction.
The Charm of the Magpies
A lone tui bird must find her lost voice to speak up against her adoptive magpie family before they start a war.
The Fight Against the Trans-Pyrenean Motorway
Then? Does the state continue to want to build unnecessary highways? No problem, the mountaineers know how to defend themselves. Union of retired farmers, dynamite thieves and herd of cows are here to destroy highways, centralizing states and hegemonic languages. Zo, let's meet for aperitif and dance on the ashes of these illegitimate projects Here's a short film to overturn the established paths