Synopsis

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.

Program

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.

Trailer

Film Details

Director: Various
Studio: Sundance Institute
Running Time: 98 minutes
Country: USA
Release Year: 2025
Rated: Unrated