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The 33rd Annual American Indian Film Festival November 7 - 15, 2008 Searchable List of Films The American Carver Ancestor Eyes At Land's End - ITI HUMMA Before Tomorrow The Box of Wisdom Totem Pole By the Rapids Byron Chief-Moon: Grey Horse Rider Chance Club Native Coloring the Media The Creation Darkness Calls in Gitxsan Deb-we-win Ge-am-aan, Our Place in the Circle The Eighth Fire: One Earth, One Whole Circle, Again The Exiles Frozen River Fry Bread Babes A Future Past Voice Gathering Devah: An Ancient Pine Nut Harvest Tradition Hope on the Rez In a World Created by a Drunken God In Laman’s Terms In This World It Had To Be Done Kitohcikew - One Who Makes Music L'Amendement Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back Magic on the Water Mato Paha: Rally to Protect Bear Butte Mino Bimaadiziwin: Touching the Sky Moccasin Flats: Redemption Modern Day Warriors My Big Fat Diet Native Wind Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners Older Than America One Drum Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School Out in the Cold Poison Wind Power Paths Reservation Soldiers A Return Home A Return to Wellness River of Renewal Second Stories: Honour Thy Father Seminole Wind Shadow of the Salmon A Shout into the Wind Sikumi Sparkling Igloo Spirit Warriors Stories of the Cherokees Summer Sun Winter Moon This Is My Life Tkaronto Totem: Return and Renewal Travels Across the Medicine Line Triptych Two Spirits, One Journey Ua Uitumupan Weaving Worlds Where Are You Grandpa? Yes Is Better Than No Yocha-de-werrtis (Return to Springtime) You Can Let Go |
 Frozen River Director: Courtney Hunt 97 Minutes • USA • Feature 2008 AIFF Award for Best Supporting Actress — Misty Upham A desperate single mother living in upstate New York resorts to smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States as a means of making ends meet in this suspense thriller. Ray Eddy is in an impossible position; it's two days before Christmas and her husband has suddenly disappeared with all of the family savings. Now, as the newly single mother of two realizes the futility of attempting to cover the house payments on her meager Yankee One Dollar Store wages, her children are forced to exist on a nutritionally devoid diet of popcorn and Tang. Deciding that her only hope for survival is to find a man who will support her and her children, Ray sets out to find a husband but instead makes the acquaintance of street-smart Mohawk Lila Littlewolf. Lila, too, has been struggling to keep her head above water amidst economic despair, and has recently stumbled across a rather unconventional solution to her dire financial situation. Lately, Lila has been earning a living by smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S., but her tribal elders vehemently disapprove of the scheme and have recently attempted to stop it by forbidding the local auto dealers from selling her a car. As fate would have it, Ray's Dodge Spirit may just be the only thing the destitute mother can count on anymore, and as this unlikely pair gas up the tank for a daring dash across the iced-over St. Lawrence River, their fates become forever intertwined in ways that neither could have ever anticipated. Monday, Nov. 10, 7:00 p.m. |
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