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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
Trankal Küra, or thunder stone, was filmed in the town of Chamichaco, Ercilla, Chile. The idea of carrying out this act came from the twelve-year-old boy Héctor Carilao Rukal. The Choike purrün and kollón purrün dance took place in family territory, today occupied by a forestry… ⊕
Küifi ùl/Sonido Antiguo (Ancient Sounds of Water) highlights the forms of racialized violence that the Mapuche continue to endure under the Chilean state in southern Chile, and their praxes of resistance, by centering the Mapuche water practices during the winter solstice in Chile. To celebrate “the return of… ⊕
This film weaves a collective portrait of five women united by spirituality and poetry, five women who challenge the camera with their words, they don’t know each other personally but the force of their declamatory speaking which is unique to each of their territories brings them together in forming a filmic braiding that… ⊕
Künü is a documentary that captures the collaborative efforts of eighty Mapuche communities to reclaim part of their ancestral lands from a large transnational forestry company in Chile, in the Araucanía-Loncoche region.How can we find balance when we are on opposing sides? Can we build spaces of listening and… ⊕
After experiencing a traumatic event in Igloolik (an Inuit hamlet in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut), Uyarak leaves her community and family in Nunavut to live in Montréal. When Covid-19 lockdowns close off the Canadian Arctic from the rest of the world, Uyarak is further separated from her closest friend,… ⊕