You are welcome to join the whole event from 2:00-8:00 pm or choose the following options:
- Short films and panel discussion (2:00-5:00 pm) with option to attend a Community dinner, serviced by Salishan catering (5:00-6:00 pm)
- Feature film presentation and discussion (6:00 – 8:00 pm) with option to attend a Community dinner, serviced by Salishan catering (5:00-6:00 pm)
Date: September 28th, 2023 | 2:00 – 8:00 PM
Where: UBC Robson Square Theatre
800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC
This event is free to attend but space is limited so please register ASAP.
Theatre screening:
Name: Energia de los Pueblos
Length: 63 minutes
Language: Spanish
Director: Marie Combe La Sandía Digital Laboratorio de Cultura Audiovisual AC
Indigenous Director: No
Female Director: Yes
Country: Mexico
Nation: Maseuales, Totonakus, Mayas Qeq’chi, Quiché, Ixiles, Qanjobales
Year: 2020
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
In Mexico and Guatemala, energy production is carried out to the detriment of the people through privatization, the dispossession of natural resources and the violent imposition of power plants to satisfy a growing industrial demand. Faced with megaprojects that threaten their territories and ways of life, rural and urban communities fighting for a dignified life made the commitment to produce their own electricity. Through the voices of those who walk towards fair, popular and sustainable energy models, the documentary allows us to discover experiences that challenge the system, considering energy as a common good and a right for everyone.
Name: Kapaemahu
Length: 8 minutes
Language: Hawaiano
Director: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe WIlson
Indigenous Director: Yes
Female Director: Yes
Country: Hawaii
Nation: Kanaka Maoli
Year: 2019
Genre: Animation
Synopsis:
Long ago, four extraordinary individuals of masculine and feminine spirit brought the healing arts of Tahiti to Hawaii. Beloved by the people for their gentle ways and miraculous cures, they imbued four giant rocks with their powers.
Name: Tita, tejedoras de raíces
Length: 20 minutes
Language: Spanish
Director: Mónica Morales García
Indigenous Director: No
Female Director: Yes
Country: Mexico
Nation: Afromexicano
Year: 2018
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
Tita, who belongs to the Afro-Mexican community of Chacahua, on the Costa Chica of Oaxaca, supports her family through fishing. She is a strong woman who seeks opportunities to improve themselves on a personal level and thus be able to contribute to the well-being of their environment.
Name: Mama para
Length: 17 minutes
Language: Quechua-Spanish
Director: Alberto Flores Vilca
Indigenous Director: Yes
Female Director: No
Country: Perú
Nation: Quechua
Year: 2020
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
In a remote Peruvian city lives Honorata Vilca, an ‘illiterate’ woman of Quechua descent who has been selling candy for more than 20 years. A story of effort and strength to sustain everyday life. The gray and the rain will cry to the sky itself.
Name: Folil
Length: 80 minutes
Language: Spanish
Director: Ignacio Montenegro Bralic
Indigenous Director: No
Female Director: No
Country: Chile
Nation: Mapuche
Year: 2019
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis:
Folil, root in Mapuzungun, the language of the Mapuche; is an invitation to question humanity’s relationship with nature, the way we think about it and inhabit it. Malen and Nawel, young Mapuche folks belonging to the communities of Pucura and Traitraico, in southern Chile, face the difficulty of protecting the forest in order to continue collecting wild mushrooms, their food and medicine. It is the territory itself and the affected Mapuche communities that, through this film, make their problems known to the world, where the languages of nature face the paradoxes of development.
Pichikeche (Children’s) screening
Name: Trully
Length: 5 minutes
Language: Spanish
Director: Edison Fernando Tituaña Matango
Indigenous Director: Yes
Female Director: No
Country: Ecuador
Nation: Kichwa Otavalo
Year: 2016
Genre: Animation
Synopsis:
Trully was a happy and lonely wolf, every morning he liked to go for a run in the mountains, one day in one of his trips he met Kokopelly-mana, who was a female goddess. In their meeting they had a magical moment, but she could not stay long on earth, so she had to leave. Trully was sad to see that Kokopelly-mana had abandoned him, so he started running following the melody she played, this sound took him to the highest cliff of the mountain. Since then, the silhouette of a wolf is seen on the cliffs howling at the moon, where the goddess answers him with the beautiful sound of her flute, which represents the spring wind.
Name: Muu Palaa
Length: 12 minutes
Language: Spanish
Director: Olowaili Green Santacruz, Luzbeidy Monterrosa Atencio
Indigenous Director: Yes
Female Director: Yes
Country: Colombia
Nation: Guna dule-Wayuu
Year: 2020
Genre: Animation
Synopsis:
Ina and Siruma, two girls from the Gunadule (Urabá Antioqueño) and Wayuu (Guajira) ancestral cultures, accompany their grandmothers Nana Dummad and Manna, in their daily activities while learning their knowledge. Curious about the presence and the songs of Werwel and Ulepala (representative birds in the laws of origin of their cultures), Ina and Siruma get lost while they are guided to a space unknown to them, in which they find themselves on a dream trip with Muu (dulegaya) Palaa (wayuunaiki), the Ocean grandmother.