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Indigenous Cinema Alliance Sets Biggest Ever Berlinale & EFM Program As It Marks 10 Years At Festival


Indigenous Cinema Alliance Sets Biggest Ever Berlinale/EFM Program As It Marks 10 Years At Festival

Akababuru: Expression of AstonishmenICA Courtesy Three works by Indigenous directors – Wrong Husband, White Ochre and Akababuru: Expression of Astonishment – are playing in the Berlinale’s Generation sidebar, while Wilfred Buck’s Star Stories about Ininew astronomer Wilfred Buck will have a special presentation in Forum Expanded. This year’s program will kick off with a discussion on what the next decade holds for Indigenous cinema, with panelists including International Sami Film Institute (ISFI) Managing Director Anne Lajla Utsi,Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) Executive Director Cheryl Hirasa, Inuk Jørgensen at Greenland’s Film.GL and Pacific Islands Screen Artists (PISA) co-founder Nikki Si’ulepa among others. The selection also includes Alaska-based Neets’aii Gwich’in filmmaker Princess Daazhraii Johnson’s Two Old Women, Māori director Hiona Hanare’s War Dance and Indigenous Women: Biomes by Shirley Krenak, the activist leader of the Krenak people in Brazil.

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