Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour 2025
The 2025 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour is a 98-minute theatrical program featuring seven short films from Indigenous filmmakers: six from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and one from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Started in 2021 as a virtual presentation, the Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour continues to center the work of Indigenous filmmakers in collaboration with museums, Native cultural centers, and arthouse cinemas across the country. The curated selection reflects a variety of Native stories and showcases inventive, original storytelling from indigenous artists previously supported by the Sundance Festival.
This year's program features:
Tiger / U.S.A. / Director: Loren Waters
A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company. Winner of the Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing. Nonfiction.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return / Canada / Director: Amanda Strong
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine, Inkwo, to protect their community from an unearthed swarm of terrifying creatures. Fiction.
Stranger, Brother. / Australia / Director: Annelise Hickey
When Adam, a self-absorbed and lonely millennial, wakes one morning to find his estranged half brother on his doorstep, he must face the family he’s been running away from. Fiction.
Field Recording / U.S.A. / Director: Quinne Larsen
A meandering joke about three dreams. Fiction.
En Memoria / U.S.A. / Director: Roberto Fatal
In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress. Fiction.
Lea Tupu’anga / Mother Tongue / New Zealand / Director: Vea Mafile’o
A young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her Tongan language skills to get a job. Out of her depth, she must find a way to communicate or risk her patient’s life.
Vox Humana / Philippines, U.S.A., Singapore / Director: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
An eccentric biologist interrogates a wild man who was found in the forest after an earthquake hit a small mountain town. Fiction.
Sundance Institute has a long history of supporting and launching talented Indigenous directors including Erica Tremblay, Taika Waititi, Blackhorse Lowe, Sterlin Harjo, Sky Hopinka, Caroline Monnet, Fox Maxy, and Shaandiin Tome. Support for screenings is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Our Cornell Cinema screenings are presented in collaboration with the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at Cornell.