Native Cinema Showcase

The National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Native film. This year's showcase focuses on Native people boldly asserting themselves through language, healing, building community, and a continued relationship with the land. Activism lies at the heart of all these stories. The showcase provides a unique forum for engagement with Native filmmakers from Indigenous communities throughout the Western Hemisphere and Arctic.

Watch online at National Museum of the American Indian website

Films

• Waikiki
• Available on demand from 12:01 AM ET, November 12, 2021, to 11:59 PM ET, November 12, 2021
• Beans
• Available on demand from 1:01 AM ET, November 13, 2021, to 11:59 PM ET, November 14, 2021

• The Song of the Butterflies (El Canto de las Mariposas)
• Available on demand from 1:01 AM ET, November 15, 2021, to 11:59 PM ET, November 16, 2021
• Run Woman Run
• Available on demand from 1:01 AM ET, November 17, 2021, to 11:59 PM ET, November 18, 2021
• What Happened to the Bees? (¿Qué les pasó a las abejas?)
• Available on demand from 12:01 AM ET, November 13, 2021, to 11:59 PM ET, November 14, 2021

• Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective
• Available on demand from 12:01 AM ET, November 12, 2021, to 11:59 PM ET, November 18, 2021
• Rez Metal
• Available on demand from 12:01 AM ET, November 12, 2021, to 11:59 PM ET, November 18, 2021

 Filmmaker Panels

Available on demand from 12:01 AM ET, November 12, 2021, to 11:59 PM ET, November 18, 2021

• The Land Speaks - How are Indigenous filmmakers using film to tackle environmental crises?
• Mapping the Landscape of Native Shorts Filmmaking
• A Different Lens - Celebrate how women and two-spirited people tell Indigenous stories through their own lens.
• Home: New Beginnings - Investigating the concept of home, this panel explores the ways Indigenous peoples' connections to home continue to change with time and place.