Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

Adam + Zack Khalil (Dir), 80 minutes, Anishinaabe/ Kānaka Maoli/ Kumeyaay/ Lenape/ Massachusett/ Nipmuc/ Wampanoag Nation Homelands + USA, Western New York Premiere

DECOLONIAL SPOTLIGHT

Co-Director Zack Khalil in attendance.

Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive world-views that justified collecting them in the first place.

Adam and Zack Khalil are BIFF 2016 (INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./]) alumni.

Many thanks to The Film Collaborative.

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Presented in partnership with the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging for the College of Arts and Sciences at University at Buffalo – The State University of New York.