Urfilm Shorts 1 is a collection of short films by Indigenous filmmakers from Sápmi, Canada and USA. The screening time is 50 minutes and takes place in Nisga’a house. There is no advance booking of tickets. 

På Grensa (SÁ/NO) 

Director: Johannes Vang.  

A Norwegian customs officer, a Finnish poacher and a mysterious Swedish woman meet at the border between their homelands and become entangled in a conflict over laws, language and prejudice. Confronted with their own secrets, they must find an unconventional solution. 

Tuktuit : Caribou (CA) 

Director: Lindsay McIntyre. 

An experimental documentary created with handmade and manufactured emulsions exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use. Lichen developers help bring the images to life, while caribou hide is processed into gelatin to make handmade emulsion. Filmed primarily on the land in Nunavut where caribou struggle to maintain their lifeways amidst burn events, habitat disruption and changing conditions.

POW! (USA) 

Director: Joey Clift. 

A North American Indigenous kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow.

HINA (NZ)

Director: Dolina Wehipeihana and Louise Pōtiki Bryant.

In the living landscape of Te Hākari wetlands, a young woman returns to her ancestral land, and in that returning, remembers. Inspired by the environmental restoration work of Ngāti Tukorehe on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand, HINA honours the creative feminine strength passed through generations, and the enduring connection between wāhine and whenua (women and land).