Indigenous Cinema

imagineNATIVE 15 – FROZEN RIVER – Heather Rae Spotlight II

Festival Screening – October 17, 2015 @ 2:15 PM at The TIFF Bell Lightbox After her husband takes off in their family vehicle for an unknown destination, Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo in an Academy Award–nominated performance) attempts to survive alone while raising her two sons near the border between Quebec and New York State. One […]

imagineNATIVE 15 – THE DEAD LANDS

Festival Screening – October 15, 2015 @ 8:00 PM at The TIFF Bell Lightbox Young Hongi (James Rolleston, star of Boy) is the son of a great chief. He longs to be trained as a fighter but his father plans for him to be a strategist and guardian of his people. When Wirepa (Te Kohe […]

imagineNATIVE 15 – MEKKO – Opening Night Gala

Festival Screening – October 14, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema In this stunning film, director Sterlin Harjo captures the story of Mekko (Rod Rondeaux), a man who becomes homeless after his release from two decades behind bars in an Oklahoma prison. Without family, he wanders the streets of Tulsa until […]