The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents the online Native Cinema Showcase, beginning on Friday, November 22, at 12:01am (ET), and running through Friday, November 29, at 11:59pm (ET). The showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Indigenous film.
In honor of the National Museum of the American Indian’s 20th anniversary in Washington, DC, this year’s online program explores the challenges still confronting Indigenous peoples on disparate fronts, including sports, missing and murdered Indigenous women, intergenerational trauma and rematriation (restoration of the sacred relationship between Indigenous communities and their ancestral land) through the restoration of buffalo populations.
It includes a total of 32 films (eight features and 24 shorts), representing 25 nations in eight countries: the US, Canada, Ecuador, Finland, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, and Peru.
Films will be available to stream on-demand, worldwide, beginning November 22, on the Native Cinema Showcase 2024 website.
To learn more, visit americanindian.si.edu.
This program is funded in part by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.
