Welcome to the 19th edition of Native Spirit Festival, dedicated to promoting world Indigenous cinema and arts. Join us for Native-produced films celebrating Narrative Sovereignty, Indigenous languages, women’s voices and matriarchal relationships, stories of land, language and identity, cultural healing and gender fluidity.

Events

World Indigenous Cinema programme (17 films)

Saturday 29 November 2025 | 12-8:00pm

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies IALS, 17 Russell Square, Charles Clore House, London WC1B 5DR

Twice into Oblivion & Conversation with Director Pierre Michel Jean & Aïda Roumer (Chair, Haiti Support Group)

Tuesday 26 November 2025 | 6-7:30pm

Experimental Shorts 

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Sunday 23rd November | 1pm & 4pm

The Horse Hospital

Sisters in Film & World Indigenous Cinema Day

Saturday 22 November 2025 | 12-8:00pm

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies IALS, 17 Russell Square, Charles Clore House, London WC1B 5DR

Stories We Have Earned: The Stoney Nakoda Film Project by Cody Lefthand

Friday 21 November 2025 | 6-9:00pm

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies IALS, 17 Russell Square, Charles Clore House, London WC1B 5DR

Hunter Brothers & Conversation with Director SU

Sunday 16 November 2025 | 5 – 7pm

Camden Chinese Community Centre, 9 Tavistock Pl, London WC1H 9SN

IMAGINE & Conversation with Film Team

Tuesday 4 November 2025 | 6-7.30pm

The First Man & Conversation with Director Ian Jonkers

Tuesday 11 November 2025 | 6-7:30pm

Trinity Hall Theatre (entrance at end of Senate House Passage), Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TJ

Singing Back the Buffalo & Conversation with Director Dr Tasha Hubbard

Thursday 9 October 2025 | 6-9pm

University of York, Bowland Theatre, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, Harewood Way, Heslington, York YO10 5DD