Celebrate Indigenous Cinema and Storytelling with Free Short Films
Available for only two weeks, this curated selection of 14 Indigenous films features stories of resilience, inspiration, and hope.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian returns with the online Native Cinema Showcase, celebrating Indigenous filmmakers of the Western Hemisphere Nov. 13–27. An annual celebration of the best of Indigenous film, spanning documentaries, features, animations, and short-format films by Indigenous filmmakers from across the Western Hemisphere and Arctic. All films are available on demand beginning Nov. 13, 5 PM ET, through Nov. 27, 2026, 5 PM ET. With the exception of “Remaining Native,” all films are available to view worldwide.
This year’s showcase includes four feature films and 10 short films. Represented in the lineup are five countries (Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay, United States) and six languages (Chatino, Chuukese, Dené, Inuktitut, K’iche’ and Numu).
Native Cinema Showcase received support from the Walt Disney Company.
Stream the films at americanindian.si.edu/native-cinema-showcase-2026/
Feature Films
La Raya
(Mexico, 2024, 80 min.)
Director: Yolanda Cruz (Chatino)
Spanish and Chatino with English subtitles
Medicine Ball
(USA, 2026, 80 min.)
Director: Leya Hale (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota/Diné)
Remaining Native
(USA, 2025, 87 min.)
Director: Paige Bethmann (Haudenosaunee)
Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband)
(Canada, 2025, 100 min.)
Director: Zacharias Kunuk (Inuk) Inuktitut with English subtitles
Content Advisory: contains scenes of physical violence
Short Films
Becoming Buffalo
(USA, 2025, 25 min.)
Director: Montana Cypress (Miccosukee)
Deneege Leł Ghu Kk’ots’eedeneeyh Te Heł Hoozoonh Ts’e Denots’edeneeyh/We Get Better When We Tan Moose Hides
(USA, 2026, 5 min.)
Director: Brittany Woods-Orrison (Koyukon Dené)
Dené with English subtitles
Content Advisory: contains scenes of hunting, trapping, and preparing of animals .
Do you Speak Paiute?
(USA, 2025, 4 min.)
Director: Taylor Uchytil (Agai Dicutta Walker River Paiute)
Numu and English with English subtitles
Iikaiksimatsa’pao’p: Grateful to Be on the Land
(Canada, 2025, 13 min.)
Director: Trevor Solway (Blackfoot)
Legend of Fry-Roti: Rise of the Dough
(USA, 2025, 9 min.)
Director: Sabrina Saleha (Navajo/Bengali)
Redbird (USA, 2024, 13 min.)
Director: Emma Barrow (Cherokee Nation)
English and Cherokee with English subtitles
Saq Nikté y El Espíritu de la Máscara/Saq Nikté and the Spirit of the Mask
(Guatemala/Uruguay, 2025, 5 min.)
Director: Ester Weiner (Mayan)
K’iche’ with English subtitles
The Arrangements
(USA, 2025,15 min.)
Director: Sonny Ganaden
English and Chuukese with English subtitles
Tule (USA, 2024, 4 min.)
Director: Jocelyn Garcia (Pomo/Chicana)
Twisted Braid
(USA, 2025, 5 min.)
Director: Ricky-Thomas Serikawa (Native Hawaiian)
