2025 Sundance Indigenous Film Tour
November 16
7:00pm
November invites us to celebrate the stories and artistry of Native and Indigenous communities. This Native American Heritage Month, Cine Las Americas joins Hyperreal Film Club in presenting the 2025 Sundance Indigenous Film Tour, spotlighting seven short films from Indigenous filmmakers across the Americas and beyond.
Let’s gather to celebrate Indigenous storytelling, honor Native heritage, and support diverse voices shaping the future of cinema!
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DATE: November 16
TIME: 7:00 PM (doors open), 7:30 PM (film starts)
LOCATION:
Hyperreal Film Club
301 Chicon Street, Austin, TX, 78702
Free parking in lot (map)
ADMISSION: Sliding scale
FILM PROGRAM:
Tiger
U.S.A.
Dir. 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.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Canada
Dir. Amanda Strong
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine, Inkwo, to protect their community from an unearthed swarm of terrifying creatures.
Stranger, Brother.
Australia
Dir. 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.
Field Recording
U.S.A.
Dir. Quinne Larsen
A meandering joke about three dreams. Fiction.
En Memoria
U.S.A.
Dir. Roberto Fatal
In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress.
Lea Tupu’anga / Mother Tongue
New Zealand
Dir. 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
Dir. 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.
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