Yupiit film

Indigenous Film: Native Spirit Film Festival screenings at the Polar Museum

Sat 12 November 2022

The Polar Museum

Indigenous Film: Native Spirit Film Festival screenings at the Polar Museum
Saturday 12 November, 5pm – 7pm
? Doors open at 4.30pm, guests are welcome to look around the Polar Museum.
? Introduction and screenings start at 5pm.
? End time 7.00pm

Join us for the Polar Museum's part of the Native Spirit Film Festival, the UK's first and only annual independent festival promoting Native Filmmakers, Media, Artists, Indigenous languages and narrative sovereignty. To celebrate International Inuit Day, we will be screening four films at the Polar Museum. This event is part of the Power and Memory programme taking part across the University of Cambridge Museums throughout 2022-24.

YUPIIT: EYE OF BOTH WORLDS
Director Stephanie Alton, Alaska, United States, 2021, 28:13 mins
In a remote village in Alaska, local singer/songwriter Byron Nicholai engages a new generation of Yupik natives using rap and beatboxing. Retelling traditional stories, he is helping young people forge a stronger connection to their cultural heritage and values, including music and dance, subsistence hunting, and protection of the environment. These lessons are now passed down by Nicholai.

AVILIAQ: ENTWINED
Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (Inuk) | 2014 | 15 mins
Inuktitut with English subtitles, Nunuvut
In the 1950s, two Inuit women attempt to protect their relationship when pressure from their new colonial culture forces them to marry men.

IMALIRIJIT
Director, Vincent L'Hérault, Tim Anaviapik Soucie, Inuktitut, 2022
27:11 mins
The inspired journey of a young Inuit community researcher.

THE FUTURE INNU
Innu Community : Mashteuiatsh, Canada, 2021, 5:40 mins
An ode to the land in relation to my double identity as an urban Indigenous person. A story that is both personal and poetic.

Cost: free