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Tag: Native Spirit

The spirit of Indigenous cinema arrives in London!

 

DMovies' team - 09-10-2019

The 13th Native Spirit Festival takes place between October 12th and 20th, with a selection of 87 films, plus talks, music and interactive performances in six venues across the British capital [Read More...]

Etienne Charles’s docushorts

Etienne Charles
2019

Eoghan Lyng - 07-10-2019

Take a journey through the sensual world of Creole, in this short yet fascinating retrospective of jazz professor Etienne Charles - from the Native Spirit Festival [Read More...]

K’Na Dreamweaver

Ida Anita Del Mundo
2016

Eoghan Lyng - 04-10-2019

A young princess of the T'boli indigenous group of the Philippines discovers that she has been chosen by the gods as her village's dreamweaver - from the Native Spirit Festival [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Thirza Cuthand

 

Victor Fraga - 24-09-2019

As the transgressive Indigiqueer filmmaker arrives in London from Canada for the Native Spirit Festival, we took the opportunity to talk about indigenous traditions, transposing, oral storytelling into cinema, humour as a political tool and more! [Read More...]

24 Snow

Mikhail Barynin
2019

Redmond Bacon - 21-08-2019

Extremity becomes its own reward in this a loving depiction of rural life in one of the world's most inhospitable places - from the upcoming Native Spirit Festival [Read More...]

London is in high spirits!!!

 

DMovies' team - 03-10-2018

The 12th Native Spirit Film Festival starts in just a week at the heart of the British capital, with a selection of Indigenous films from all corners of the planet teeming with colour, diversity and urgent sociopolitical issues; check out our lowdown on the event. [Read More...]

Meet the man behind the Black Divaz

 

Victor Fraga - 25-09-2018

As the documentary BLACK DIVAZ - about six Aboriginal drag queens - premieres at the Native Spirit Film Festival, we had a dirty talk with the filmmaker Adrian Russell Wills and found out about his inspiration, his impetus and the challenges in making such a thought-provoking movie [Read More...]

Burkinabé Rising 

Iara Lee
2018

Redmond Bacon - 21-09-2018

People have the power! Doc reveals that a grassroots revolution transformed Burkina Faso in a real democracy, and how the surrounding art world helped to articulate the resistance - from the Native Spirit Film Festival taking place between October 10th and 21st [Read More...]