imagineNATIVE will commemorate National Aboriginal History Month with several special free events. Below are the events running throughout June. The 15th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival returns to Toronto and runs from October 22-26, 2014.

June 6, @ 6pm, Toronto Public Library, Bloor/Gladstone, 1101 Bloor Street West:
imagineNATIVE’s indigiFLIX Community Screening Series is expanding their programming for National Aboriginal History Month by presenting three FREE events throughout the month of June. indigiFLIX presents an incredible selection of films shown at previous imagineNATIVE festivals.

June 13, @6pm: In co-presentation with the Bloor/Gladstone Toronto Public Library, the Festival Award Winner Shorts Programme will feature drama, comedy and documentary works from past festivals on themes of survival, strength and perseverance. The shorts will include Amaqqut Nunaat (The Country of Wolves), Throat Song, Fighter, My Story, Le Reve D’Une Mere (A Mother’s Dream), Red Girl’s Reasoning, and Mohawk Midnight Runners, which will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s director, Zoe Hopkins.

June 19, @6pm: In co-presentation with the Spadina/Bloor Toronto Public Library, the imagineNATIVE Youth Shorts Programme will showcase the best shorts by or about youth, which offer personal, traditional, comedic and inspiring perspectives from Canadian Indigenous artists. Titles include Wave A Red Flag, My Story, Nuu (Octopus Story), Ou Tu Va Toi?: Diane, Eagle vs. Sparrow, and Fusion.

June 21, @3:30pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West imagineNATIVE, In partnership with TIFF, co-presents a special screening of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, fully translated into the Navajo language. Ats’ahoniyee’ nil holoo doo: May the force be with you! For more info visit TIFF

June 25, @ 7pm: indigiFLIX will wrap up with indigiFLIX: Under The Stars, an initiative of the Regent Park Film Festival’s popular outdoor screening series, with a return screening of Empire of Dirt, the Canadian Screen Awards (CSA) Best Picture nominee by Peter Stebbings, produced by Jennifer Podemski and starring CSA-nominated actors Cara Gee and Jennifer Podemski.

June 26, @10am – 7pm: Wrapping up National Aboriginal History Month, imagineNATIVE will participate in the 5th annual Aboriginal History Month Celebration at Yonge-Dundas Square. imagineNATIVE will be there all day long with prizes and giveaways, as entertainers such as Digging Roots, Métis Fiddler Quartet and Derek Miller perform throughout the day.

For more information please visit the imagineNATIVE website.