The 2025 Sundance Indigenous Film Tour, a 98-minute program of seven short films by Indigenous filmmakers whose work was shown at the festival, will touch down at the Southampton Playhouse on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
The program is co-presented by Eugene Hernandez, the festival’s director, and Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation. Jeremy Dennis, an artist and the founder of Ma’s House, will introduce the event.
The lineup includes animation, documentaries, coming-of-age dramas, and comedies. The curated selection reflects a variety of Native stories and highlights inventive, original storytelling from Indigenous artists previously supported by the festival.
Directed by Loren Waters, “Tiger” is a portrait of Dana Tiger, an award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company. The American film won the short film special jury award for directing at Sundance in 2025.
“Inkwo for When the Starving Return,” a Canadian animated film directed by Amanda Strong, is the story of Dove, a gender-shifting warrior who uses their Indigenous medicine, Inkwo, to protect their community from a swarm of terrifying flesh-eating creatures.
From Australia comes “Stranger, Brother,” a narrative film by Annelise Hickey about a self-absorbed and lonely millennial who wakes one morning to find his estranged half brother on his doorstep, bringing him face to face with the family he has been running away from.
“Field Recording” is a two-minute American animated film by Quinne Larsen about three friends who embark on surreal adventures after a shared dream. It was recorded in English and Chinuk Wawa, an Indigenous language of the Pacific Northwest.
“En Memoria” (U.S.A.), directed by Roberto Fatal, is a narrative film set in a dystopian future, where a mother struggles to make a dress for her daughter’s 15th birthday, a traditional Latin American celebration.
In “Lea Tupu’anga/Mother Tongue,” a drama directed by Vea Mafile’o, a Scottish, English, Maori, and Tongan filmmaker, a young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her language skills to get a job, only to find she is out of her depth.
“Vox Humana” is the story of an eccentric biologist who interrogates a wild man who was found in the forest after an earthquake hit a small mountain town. Set in the near future, it is directed by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, an award-winning Filipino filmmaker.
