WF online
In order to face the new challenges restricting our movements and as an answer to the many demands following our live screenings for online presentations, we are launching WF online in 2021. We will produce four curated screening programs each giving a curatorial focus featuring Basel, Swiss and international productions. Each program will be available for one week and will be accompanied by interviews with the filmmakers and additional text on the films.
May 2021 (5 - 12): Bridge builders, September 2021 (8 - 15): Experimental and November 2021 (17 - 24): Sustainability
This project is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Mary & Ewald E. Bertschmann-Stiftung and the Division of Cultural Affairs Basel-Stadt.
Aboriginal and First Peoples
17 - 24 February 2021
Online Screening Venue
Film program
Bihttoš (Rebel)
by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Canada/Norway, 2014, 14mins, English and North Sami
Mixing archival footage, re-enactments and animation, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers´ documentary Bihttoš (Rebel) explores how past injustices impacted the marriage of her mother, who is of Blackfoot descent, and her Sami father.
12/Make It Right
from the exhibition, Incomplete Drawings of Decolonization
by Anna Tsouhlarakis
USA, 2020, 5 mins, no dialogue
The title 12/Make It Right is a nod to the conceptual titling Sol LeWitt used in his pieces. In 12/Make It Right, Tsouhlarakis use 12 pieces of IKEA remnants (a cube is made up of 12 edges, or lines). "Make It Right" is a phrase her Navajo grandmother always used when talking and teaching about Navajo beliefs. For the complete information on this piece, click here.
Mensagens da Terra
by Maria Pankararu, Sebastian Gerlic and Ângelo Rosário
Brazil, 2020, 13 min 41, Portugease with english subtitles
This documentary compiles the reflections and views of four Indigenous men and women from the Tupinambá Hāhāhāe, Pankararu, Kariri-Xocó and Tupinambá ethnicities. They question what it means to be civilized and what it means to be a barbarian. Through their lived experiences, and through the memories and traumas suffered by their elders, they reflect on both the local and global realities of human coexistence with nature.
Three-thousand
by Asinnajaq
Canada, 2017, 14mins, Inuktitut and English
In this short film, Inuk artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a imaginary universe. Diving into the NFB’s vast archive, she parses the complicated cinematic representation of the Inuit, harvesting fleeting truths and fortuitous accidents from a range of sources—newsreels, propaganda, ethnographic docs, and work by Indigenous filmmakers. Embedding historic footage into original animation, she conjures up a vision of hope and possibility.
Water As Taonga is part of SAMAQAN: WATER STORIES
by Jeff Bear (Maliseet) and Marianne Jones (Haida)
Canada, 2015, 22 mins, English
Marianne Jones and Jeff Bear travel from Canada’s west coast to New Zealand where they meet with Maori leaders. The Maori explain the sacred relationship they have with water. Their migration to New Zealand in the 13th century predated that of settlers, or “infinite others” as the Maori call them, by 500 years.
TSHIUETIN
by Caroline Monnet
Canada, 2016, 10 min 47, Innu and French with English subtitles
Tshiuetin (pronounced T- shee –way- tin and translates to ‘North Wind’ in the Innu language) explores the operations of Canada’s first First Nations-owned railway line. Established in 2005, Tshiuetin Railway Inc. runs between Sept-Iles and Schefferville and serves a number of communities along the way. As the train winds its way through lighted tunnels and snowy mountainsides, the conductor of the train explains how the ways in which the railway has been a benefit to him and to the community at large.