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The 2026 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour is a free theatrical program featuring the award-winning Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/
Originally launched in 2021 as a digital initiative alongside Native cultural center, and arthouse cinema partners, the program returns to theaters this summer with the 2026 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour to celebrate the breakthrough work of emerging Indigenous filmmakers. Find a venue near you and register for events on partner websites below.
The 2026 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The Santa Fe screenings are co-presented by Cinedoom, a Blackhorse Lowe film series.
THE FILMS
Aanikoobijigan (ancestor/great-grandparent/
Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place. Documentary.
When a Native American Catholic priest returns to his tribal land to perform an exorcism, he must team up with his estranged medicine woman sister to battle a demonic force tied to the old Indian boarding school and the sins of his own Church.
When a teen goes missing from the Cahuilla Reservation her sister searches for the truth and is drawn into a cosmic world that may hold the answers, if she chooses to listen.
w/ Various
The 2026 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour is a free theatrical program featuring the award-winning Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/
Originally launched in 2021 as a digital initiative alongside Native cultural center, and arthouse cinema partners, the program returns to theaters this summer with the 2026 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour to celebrate the breakthrough work of emerging Indigenous filmmakers. Find a venue near you and register for events on partner websites below.
The 2026 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The Santa Fe screenings are co-presented by Cinedoom, a Blackhorse Lowe film series.
THE FILMS
Aanikoobijigan (ancestor/great-grandparent/
Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place. Documentary.
When a Native American Catholic priest returns to his tribal land to perform an exorcism, he must team up with his estranged medicine woman sister to battle a demonic force tied to the old Indian boarding school and the sins of his own Church.
When a teen goes missing from the Cahuilla Reservation her sister searches for the truth and is drawn into a cosmic world that may hold the answers, if she chooses to listen.
