2025 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour
TICKETS: $10 for Members | $12 for non-Members
$10 for Indigenous Peoples (on-site purchase only)
The 2025 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour is a 98-minute theatrical program featuring 7 short films from Indigenous filmmakers: six from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and one from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Started in 2021 as a virtual presentation in conjunction with our friends at museums, Native cultural centers, and arthouse cinemas.
FILMS
Tiger / U.S.A. (Director: Loren Waters) — A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company. Winner of the Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing. Nonfiction.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return / Canada (Director: Amanda Strong) — Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine, Inkwo, to protect their community from an unearthed swarm of terrifying creatures. Fiction.
Stranger, Brother. / Australia (Director: Annelise Hickey) — When Adam, a self-absorbed and lonely millennial, wakes one morning to find his estranged half brother on his doorstep, he must face the family he’s been running away from. Fiction.
Field Recording / U.S.A. (Director: Quinne Larsen) — A meandering joke about three dreams. Fiction.
En Memoria / U.S.A. (Director: Roberto Fatal) — In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress.Fiction.
Lea Tupu’anga / Mother Tongue / New Zealand (Director: Vea Mafile’o) — A young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her Tongan language skills to get a job. Out of her depth, she must find a way to communicate or risk her patient’s life.
Vox Humana / Philippines, U.S.A., Singapore (Director: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan) — An eccentric biologist interrogates a wild man who was found in the forest after an earthquake hit a small mountain town. Fiction.