Native Spirit Film Festival present a programme of short films celebrating Greenlandic and Turtle Island storytellers, with a director Q&A with Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller.
Doors 1.30pm
Tickets £10-15
Join us for a Saturday Shorts programme celebrating Greenlandic and Turtle Island storytellers. In-person: Kalaallisut artist Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller presents his Super 8 visual poetry; followed by nine Turtle Island films, including: ‘Gods & Devils’ 35mm Louis Riel historical drama, ‘Johnny Crow’ animated spray-painted murals, ‘Lethal Ethal’ Naskapi vampirism, and Cree astronomer ‘Wilfred Buck’s Star Stories’.
Four Kalaallisut Shorts & Poetry by Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller. Filmed in Greenland, his work is a meditation on loss, belonging, and the fragile beauty of Arctic landscapes:
PINNGORTITARLU OQALOQATIGIINNEQ (DIALOGUE WITH NATURE)
2026 04’40, Visual poetry shot on super 8, a call for action on preservation of nature.
VISIONA OF TIME
03’23, A time where singing and practising own traditions was normal and not seen as a crazed person.
ELIOS FOVSEN (LET FOVSEN LIVE)
06’33, Protest in Oslo against wind turbines at Fosen, Norway
NUNA NAMMINEQ (LAND BACK)
2’56, A quiet demonstration after the orange blob started to harass us Greenlanders about a hostile takeover and casual violations.
GODS & DEVILS
Dir. Jay Cardinal Villeneuve, 2025, Métis, Canada, 12’41. Language: Bush Cree & Michif
May 12, 1885. Batoche, Saskatchewan. Treaty 6. Canada. With the thunder of approaching gunfire shaking the walls of the Church of Batoche, Métis legend Louis Riel delivers one last message to the men, women and children huddled inside – a plea for courage, a prayer for survival, and a prophecy of a future not yet written. Outside, nearly a thousand Canadian soldiers close in.
LETHAL ETHEL
Dir. Elayna Einish, 2025, Naskapi, Kawawachikamach, Canada, 8’51
A mockumentary about a Naskapi vampire protecting her land and culture.
JOHNNY CROW
Dir. Xstine Cook, Jesse Gouchey, 2021, Cree, Papaschase First Nation, Canada, 7’15
A poetic journey of a young man’s struggle to return to his son through the criminal justice system and the layers of colonisation it represents. Created by animating spray-painted murals by Cree artist Jesse Gouchey, frame-by-frame over seven years across Alberta and BC. Johnny Crow's struggle speaks to the resilience of modern day warriors surviving and resisting bureaucratic battles of written laws vs oral traditions, contrasted by a haunting poem by spoken word artist Mitcholos Touchie (Hitacu, Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ x Nuučaan̓uɫ). Turtle Island agreements were to share, and nobody was conquered. Today's resistance seeks to expose and correct treaty trickery, the dishonourable paper wars that are won and lost with the flick of a stock market digit. Music by Bullhorn Singers (Kainai), Billy Wadsworth (Kainai), Celina Kalluk (Inuit-Canadian), Daniel Neary, Pura Fé (Tuscarora), Cary L. Morin, and Antonia Crescioni.
ON POSTINDIAN SURVIVANCE
Dir. Sioui One, 2026, Wendat, Wendake, Canada, 5’00
An experimental Short built upon the work of emerging artist and sonic warrior Emcee Sioui. It is but a work of art refusing settler colonial representation politics yet espousing relationality as its core tenet.
CALL ME CRAZY ONE MORE TIME
Dir. Danielle Vandale, 2025, Métis, Saskatchewan, Canada, 5’17
A performance poem on the devastating effects of prescription psychiatric drugs – the inability to feel emotions of motherhood and of tragically losing her daughter. Calling out the medical and social services system that Indigenous mothers must navigate all too often without support, understanding or hope, the director calls for a change in the way Indigenous women are treated.
MONSTR
Dir. Tank Standing Buffalo, 2023, Potawatomi (Caldwell First Nation), Canada, 6’09
How do you go on living when everything is taken from you in the blink of an eye? A young artist confronts his inner demons while apprenticing with a northwest totem carver after the death of his beloved.
TOTEM
Dir. That Native Thomas, 2025, Kiowa, Comanche, Warm Springs Confederated Tribes, US, 21’00
Ashley Harrah is a ‘pretendian’ falsely claiming Native American heritage to boost her popularity as an online influencer. Her latest video takes her on a vision quest for a sacred totem pole she discovers is cursed, not sacred.
ÑUUYII (EARTH)
Dir. Itandehui Jansen, 2025, Mixtec, Mexico/UK, 11’00
A young man, born and raised in the vastness of the galaxy, lands on an unknown planet. As he surveys the landscape, he recognises fragments from ancient stories. Driven by a quiet urgency, he contacts his ship’s command to retrieve archival recordings of the last humans to abandon earth. Slowly, it dawns on him that he has returned to his ancestral home.
STAR STORIES: WILFRED BUCK
Dir. Lisa Jackson, 2026, Opaskwayak Cree Nation, Ininew, Neyahiw, Canada, 21’00
An elderly member of the indigenous Cree people of Canada is our spiritual guide in a film that, like its charismatic protagonist, moves between past and present, and between Earth and the stars, to overcome the ghosts of colonisation.
Founded by Mapuche leader Freddy Trequil, Native Spirit is the UK’s first and longest-running independent film festival promoting Native filmmakers, artists: narrative and visual sovereignty, and languages, worldwide.
Content warning: some films contain themes of colonial violence.
Programme maybe subject to change.
https://nativespiritfoundation.org/native-spirit-festival-2026/