Bridging Indigenous cinema and the international film industry.

The production arm of among.earth. Where Indigenous film directors, cinematographers, producers and editors move from first workshops to full authorship, production, and international distribution.

  • Production
Presenting
Homework
Director
Kalfein Wuisan
A young Indigenous woman from Minahasa sets out to define “climate change” for a school assignment, but her search leads her beyond textbooks.
  • Production
Presenting
Scars of Gold
Director
Abdel Mandili
Namtara organizes resistance to a gold mine, only to watch the river turn toxic, poisoned by a neighboring community that took the money he refused.
  • Development
Presenting
Abrid N'Azetta
Director
Abdel Mandili
Tuda weaves a traditional carpet to keep her family's knowledge alive, but when male traders dismiss her work, a mythical feminine presence shows her another way to carry it forward.
  • Development
Presenting
The Birds Still Sing Here
Director
Abdel Mandili
On Lovongai island, where the sea presses further into the land and mining interests have long fractured the community from within, Yasmin tries to understand what her father John has carried in silence for years, as he slowly begins to speak.
  • World Premiere
Indie Short Fest, 2024
Presenting
Our Grandparents Hunted Here
Director
Abdel Mandili & Julian Busquets Moura
Our Grandparents Hunted Here is a short documentary film that follows the heroic stories of Indigenous forest defenders from the Brazilian Amazon.
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