The heartache of memory is explored as an elderly alcoholic aunt (Cardinal) mysteriously returns to attend the memorial for a family's young son. Memory won the 2004 Best Live Action Short Award at the American Indian Film Festival.

In this contemporary drama, a Canadian teen struggles to find her way as she negotiates the realities of both her adopted family and her native origins. Tantoo Cardinal plays both the role of Rose’s adoptive mother as well as her born again Christian birth mother. At odds with her white adoptive mother, the conflicted daughter fantasizes about what her life might have been with her birth family. Her search for identity reveals a brother and a new understanding of the meaning of family. Blood River won the Best Film Award at the 2000 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto.

Honey Moccasin blends storytelling, collective memory and humor to provide an irreverent slice of life on the Grand Pine Indian Reservation. The comedy/thriller depicts the rivalry between the Smokin' Moccasin bar, a venue for local performance artists and its rival the Inukshuk Café. Against this improbable backdrop we encounter the saga of crusading investigator Honey Moccasin (Cardinal) and closeted drag queen and pow wow clothing thief Zachary John. Director Shelley Niro is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Kanien'kehaka (Mohawk) Nation, from the Six Nations Reserve, near Brantford, Ontario. Honey Moccasin was awarded best feature at the Red Earth Festival in Oklahoma City and best experimental work at the Dream speakers Festival in Edmonton, Alberta.

March 4 (Saturday) 9 pm