"The nation will keep existing for as long as it has links with the land on which it lives" says the narrative voice of the 1987 director Andris Slapins in the documentary Chukotka The Memorial Bank, which has been left forgotten for almost 30 years in the archive. Story about the disappearing traditions of Chukchi and their forced economic migration. The Natives programme is a study of nations who over time, have become strangers in their own country, whether they are Canadian Indians in the film She Dances for People (2015), the historical aspect of slavery in Crying Sea Shell (2017) or extinct Sikh warrior traditions in India – the fantasy documentary Immortal (2017). This post-colonial kaleidoscope allows us to have a look at the phenomenon of indigenous peoples from a modern perspective and strives to promote a wider understanding of the historically colonial alienation in places that the residents themselves once called home.
Chukotka. The shore of memory
Andris Slapiņš
Documentary / USSR, Latvia / 1987
She Dances for People
Michelle Latimer
Experimental / Canada / 2015
The crying conch
Vincent Toi
Fiction / Canada / 2017
Immortals
Erik Morales
Canada