iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🌟 Indigenous cinema & Media coming to you this autumn 🍂 Oct-Nov in-person UK & London 🌐 Dec online #Eventive 🌽 Watch 2026 Fest trailers Subscribe @ YouTube 📣 #EyesWideOpen Join us video: Ngā mihi nui : Āraahua Pictures #nativespiritfestival #IndigenousCinema #NarrativeSovereignty #IndependentFilm

001

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Audio-visual Media and the Global Dream Space: Session 8. Super 8 rare archive research. 1983 Miners' Film Workshop #Telamayu #Bolivia collab between Trade Union Federation of Bolivian Mineworkers (FSTMB)+French NGO Association Varan @ BIMI 5 Jun

000

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

no Indigenous filmmakers for us. Leith Kino is cool though

000

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

L6+ Classes - Mon For those already describing people, experiences, preferences; expressing thoughts with increasing fluency. Next term continues to strengthen expressions of whakaaro, extend learners’ sentence control: advanced negation patterns supporting natural, sustained reo in wider situations

100

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Focus on relationships expressed through the ā/ō categories, building active sentence patterns, supporting learners to move from recognising language to using it confidently in simple, everyday contexts. cont/

100

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Te Puāwai L4: Sun or Tue Leaners building confidence with pronunciation. Already familiar with: - greetings, basic vocabulary, commands, - time expressions, - location words (runga, raro, etc), - pronouns (au, koe, kōrua, māua etc). cont/

110

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Te Reo Māori 🌍 UK/EU/World 12-week online course - Te Ataarangi tutors £185.00 🗓 starting 10th May, ending July 2026 🕖 19:00 - 20:30 BST UK ℹ️ buy.stripe.com/14A3cu5e6gpZ...

100

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Wed 22 Apr 18:30 Carl Mika #Maori Lecture @ The Showroom #London theshowroom.org/events/carl-...

000

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Fri nite lates 24 Apr 18:30 Great Court & Room 26 @britishmuseum.bsky.social www.britishmuseum.org/events/nulia...

000

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

📽️ Live now at Sploj Mach #Machynlleth #Wales ❄️ Lleisiau Cynhenid Arctig four short documentary films from Inuit, Inupiat, Sámi and Gwich’in filmmakers artwork by Cornish artist SineadHayward.com #indigenouscinema #nativespiritfestival #cymru #wales #arctig #arctic

010

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Lleisiau Cynhenid Arctig four short documentary films from Inuit, Inupiat, Sámi and Gwich’in filmmakers tonight at Sploj Mach #Machynlleth ancient capital of #Wales artwork by Cornish artist SineadHayward.com

000

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

...Paulina Borsook 25yr old book #cyberselfish www.cyberselfish.com My Life as a Ghost youtu.be/J2BGiV2QC0E?...

010

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

listening to Karen Yao 2' www.youtube.com/shorts/g4tcc... 55' youtu.be/e70RT6c01M8?...

110

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🎞️ Witness: Arctic Indigenous Voices Ashley Qilavaq-Savard, Carmen Kuptana, Eriel Lugt, Jennifer Kilabuk, Johannes Vang, Marc Fussing Rosbach, Princess Daazhraii Johnson, 22min, 2024. Sámi (Norway). Inuit (Canada & Greenland). Gwich'in (Canada & United States)... details 👉 youtu.be/H5bgqlN7V0E

youtu.be

Witness Arctic Indigenous Voices — Trailer

YouTube video by Native Spirit UK

011

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🎞️ Born of the Ice Stephanie Alton, Steve Oomittuk, 2024, 16min, 2024. Inupiat, Alaska Myth and modernity tell the story of a remote Alaskan village and Inupiat hunters of bowhead whales, part of subsistence living and spiritual practice youtu.be/R1HWlKL5pJM

youtu.be

Born of the Ice by Stephanie Jo Alton, Steve Oomittuk — Trailer

YouTube video by Native Spirit UK

111

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🎞️ Preserve Our Culture Edouard Kaltush, 6min, 2024, Nutashkuan, Innu Nation, Canada Wapikoni mobile Passing on traditional skills, Edouard teaches three children in his community how to weave snowshoes and fish for lobster at low tide.

youtu.be

Nakatuenitam Innu Aitun (Preserve our Culture) by Edouard Kaltush — Trailer

YouTube video by Native Spirit UK

100

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🎞️ Ivikkisartoq Kingulleq / The Last Grass Seamstress Arina Kleist 18min 2024 #Kalaallisut This Short doc inspires an Inuit revival of the ancestral art & craft of lyme grass sewing. 82yr old Inuk, Marie Josefsen, tells her story of probably being the last grass weaving specialist in Greenland.

youtu.be

Ivikkisartoq Kingulleq (The Last Grass Seamstress) by Arina Kleist — Trailer

YouTube video by Native Spirit UK

110

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

📽️ ARCTIC INDIGENOUS VOICES : four premiere Shorts by Inuit, Inupiat, Sámi, Gwich’in filmmakers travel to #Wales #Machynlleth 🗣️ muh·kuhnth·leth 📅 Thu 18 Dec 7pm 📍 Sploj Mach, Unit 2, Bank Lane — Machynlleth's new space for culture & community 💷 £5 on door Croeso i pawb / A warm welcome to all 1/5

111

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

2/...immigrants living in the Dominican Republic. Daphné Ménard, a Haitian theatre director, brought together actors from both parts of the island to work on this event. It was an unprecedented creative project, demanding people from both sides to summon up the darker realms of their histories.

000

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Wed 26 Nov 6-7.30pm 📍Cambridge Uni ISDG #nativespiritfestival & Haiti Support Group TWICE INTO OBLIVION Pierre Michel Jean 2023 100' In 1937 Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ordered the massacre of over 20,000 Haitian... watch ▶️ youtu.be/oUURp_Lpq6o 🎫 twiceintooblivion.eventbrite.co.uk

100

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

ALL FREE 🌟 Sat 22 Nov 12-8pm #nativespiritfestival #bloomsbury 📍17 Russell Square, London 🐥 🚸 12-1pm family friendly animation 2️⃣0️⃣ films 🎞️ themes Matrilineal, Food Sovereignty, docs, features, supernatural, comedy... #indigenouscinema ▶️ youtu.be/p__h_49Lhck 🎫 niimissaksistersinfilm.eventbrite.co.uk

niimissaksistersinfilm.eventbrite.co.uk

Native Spirit Festival : SISTERS IN FILM & WORLD INDIGENOUS CINEMA DAY

20 International Indigenous films: Children's hour 12-1pm—Matriarchal leadership—Kin Relations— Land Language Life & Spirituality

000

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

OUR FATHER YU’A’AH Clément LAGOUARDE youtu.be/PDTim005RFc

000

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

WHO ARE YOU? WHO AM I? Frédérique Picard youtu.be/8D2Kt3BRHto

100

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

LANGUAGE BACK Dusan V Harminc, Kimberly Blaeser youtu.be/6R_onysHXRg

100

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

MY MESSAGE TO YOU Wáats'asdíyei Joe Yates, 2' With less than a handful of fluent Haida speakers, Nayak'aq Yaahl (6) shares a message all in the Haida language: even though we may be going through difficult times, be still and listen to our ancestors.

100

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

FREE Fri 21 Nov 6-9pm #nativespiritfestival #bloomsbury STORIES WE HAVE EARNED: THE STONEY NAKODA FILM PROJECT by Cody Lefthand reveals the exploitation of Stoney Nakoda people’s culture & customs for entertainment purposes #Hollywood youtu.be/XfNy-SgG1FE thestoneynakodafilmproject.eventbrite.co.uk

100

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

all welcome Sun 23 Nov World Indigenous Cinema: Experimental Shorts 📍The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, WC1N 1JD 🚆 Russell Sq 📽️Matinee (2-4pm) www.thehorsehospital.com/events/nsf20... 📽️Dusk (5-7pm) www.thehorsehospital.com/events/nsf20... #IndigenousCinema #narrativesovereignty #nativespiritfestival

010

Reposted by Native Spirit Festival

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

NATIVE SPIRIT FESTIVAL — FREE in London! 20 hrs of global Indigenous-produced film this weekend starts 6pm Fri 21 Nov 📍IALS, 17 Russell Sq WC1B 5DR Sat 22nd 12-8pm, opens with 60' family-friendly animations, matrilineal SISTERS IN FILM... ℹ️ www.eventbrite.com/cc/native-sp... youtu.be/9ZEWXxAG7Po

youtu.be

2025 Native Spirit Festival — Trailer

YouTube video by Native Spirit UK

021

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

youtu.be

2025 Native Spirit Festival — Trailer

YouTube video by Native Spirit UK

021

Reposted by Native Spirit Festival

University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🎧 New podcast episode featuring Willi Lempert and Karrmen Crey on Indigenous filmmaking and futures. share.transistor.fm/s/952dd9d3

At top left, two human headshots. Below, book cover for Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema by William Lempert. (Bearded man sits among dried grasses before a roofless ruin, the scene captured by a movie camera in the foreground. Title vertical on left.) Below, headphones graphic with text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote in italic serif font: "I'm thinking about films in terms of their social lives throughout the span of the process (and) this idea of a broader visibility paradox around the flourishing sphere of Indigenous Australian media." —Willi Lempert.

031

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Sun 16 Nov 📽️ HUNTER BROTHERS Su Hung-EN #taiwan #Truku tradition & modernity clash in this poignant tale depicting Indigenous brothers with contrasting attitudes towards their cultural heritage. 📌 Camden Chinese Community Centre 甘頓華人社區中心 free tea 🫖 £5 🎟️ hunterbrothers.eventbrite.co.uk

hunterbrothers.eventbrite.co.uk

HUNTER BROTHERS — TAROKO, TAIWAN. PREMIERE & TALK

Truku tradition & modernity clash in this poignant tale depicting two Indigenous brothers with contrasting attitudes towards their culture

110

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

📽️ Tue 11 Nov 6pm Film & Director conversation 📌 Trinity Hall Theatre #cambridgeuniversity Ian Jonker's film explores the vital role of Koi San languages in continuing Griqua cultural heritage in South Africa FREE 🎫 thefirstman.eventbrite.co.uk #indigenous #nativespiritfestival & #ISDG #indigenous

000

Reposted by Native Spirit Festival

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

🗓️ 4 Nov 2025 6-7.30pm 📽️IMAGINE Jack Manning Bancroft 15yr-old gender-fluid Kim journeys to 5 islands in 24hrs. Facing surreal trials & inner demons — guided by Aboriginal Elders & alien dog Jeff, Kim explores identity, freedom, a world on the brink of collapse 🎟️ imagineanimation.eventbrite.co.uk

112

Reposted by Native Spirit Festival

Joey Clift @joeytainment.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

What a cool way to start Native American Heritage Month! Pow qualified for The Academy Awards in the "Best Animated Short" category! Thank you to @animag.bsky.social for including us in their Oscar Watch and for everyone who continues to boost this film. Tell your @theacademyusa.bsky.social friends!

A screen capture from Animation Magazine's "Oscar Watch" article, showing Pow! front and center!

24613

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🎬 Mārama: debut feature of #London-based Kiwi Taratoa Stappard. A Māori #Gothic Revenge #Horror set in #Victorian #England 1859. Themes: colonisation, #Māori oppression, spiritual realms. Confronting, bloody & unique ▶️ youtu.be/qRQrXmHW8p4?... via @YouTube #IndigenousCinema #aotearoa #newzealand

000

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

📽️IMAGINE 4 Nov 6pm Trinity Hall Theatre #Cambridge Free 🎟️https://ImagineAnimation.eventbrite.co.uk Unlocking the Power of #Indigenous Knowledge with Dr Tyson Yunkaporta (Producer 🎞️ IMAGINE) youtu.be/3Kb7EWX80Fo?... via @YouTube #cambridgeevents

youtu.be

Unlocking the Power of Indigenous Knowledge with Tyson Yunkaporta

YouTube video by Deakin University

100

Reposted by Native Spirit Festival

Native Spirit Festival @nativespirituk.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

🗓️ Thu 20 Nov 6pm 📍 Cambridge Uni 📽️ TWICE INTO OBLIVION (L'OUBLI TUE DEUX FOIS) Premiere & Haiti Support Group Talk Haitian Pierre Michel Jean’s latest film offers a powerful exploration of how silence & forgetting continue to shape perceptions of history 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twice-into...

woman and man with right hands raised to cheeks, palms facing each other

001