Live, Laugh, Landback

<div>Journeys through global Indigenous worlds explore real and imagined spaces of Native humor, familial grief, and queer joy. Content considerations: self harm, separation trauma, childhood death. Curated by Colleen Thurston.</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>Filmmakers scheduled to attend a post-screening Q&amp;A.&nbsp;</i></b>Sponsored by Jerry &amp; Susan Ford.</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Red Running Into Love</b></div><div>Natalie Benally | USA | 2025 | 6 min</div><div>Two Navajo teens find themselves in a meet cute that goes awkwardly wrong.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Julie Takes a Walk</b></div><div>Frankie Pederson &amp; Shea Vassar | USA | 2026 | 14 min</div><div>After Julie learns she's adopted on her wedding day, she runs away to a small Oklahoma town to embark on an existential crisis.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>The Owl and The Rainbow (I Duok Om I Bohuntung)</b></div><div>Jo Luping | New Zealand, Malaysia | 2026 | 10 min</div><div>A mother must find the courage to soar to the moon and battle the creature of death—or risk losing her daughter forever.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Womb</b></div><div>Ira Hetaraka | New Zealand | 2025 | 15 min</div><div>Living in the blur between imagination and reality, a Māori child in foster care savors her weekly visits with her mother and dreams of an alternate life.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Raven Steals the Sun</b></div><div>Sydney Renee | USA | 2026 | 8 min</div><div>A young Native woman coping with grief must convince her family members to set her grandmother’s spirit free. Based on a Coast Salish legend.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><b>The Arrangements</b></div><div>Sonny Ganaden | USA, Kingdom of Hawai’i | 2025 | 15 min</div><div>Three Micronesian boys in Hawai’i have a day to prepare for a funeral and find their friend’s hidden treasure.</div></div><div><br></div>PT1H12M2026-10-24Live, Laugh, Landback"Live, Laugh, Landback"

Showtimes

October 24, 2:00 pm

The Grand Cinema