DOUBLE FEATURE 3:30 - 5:30 PM State Theater
Thursday 3/12
48m
57m
Q&A Leya Hale, Director
4:00 - 5:00 PM Greenstone Cinema The Insides of Our Lives A Tale of Two Qallunaat This documentary is about two intrepid women artists who travelled to the Arctic in the early 1970s and left a lasting legacy of their art and love of the Inuit and their land. The two women travelled to Pond Inlet in the early 1970s and left a unique legacy of stories, film footage, and sketches. Inuk Elder, Navalik Tologanak, brings Sheila Burnford’s non-fiction book “One Woman’s Arctic”, her film footage, and hundreds of Susan Ross sketches to share with Elders and youth.
Medicine Ball
Through basketball, Native athletes confront their campus’s boarding school legacy. Minnesota-based director Leya Hale is a 2025 Bush Fellow and documentary filmmaker from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations. She is a multiple regional Emmy award- winning producer for Twin Cities PBS, where her work elevates Indigenous lifeways and centers community-driven stories rooted in culture, history, and lived experience.
50m
The Insides of Our Lives is a poetic blend that combines fiction with found footage. A selection from thousands of hours of found footage - mostly 8mm material - tells the coming-of-age story of two girls growing up along a border in Europe, as the border gradually drives them apart. The story sensitively portrays what it means to grow up in a world where one day fences appear, creating an 'us' and a 'them'. The film, though composed with footage of hundreds of different lives that have been filmed, is crafted in such a way that it feels like the life of one person.
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