KUKI .17 Young Short Film Festival Berlin
3 - 10 November 2024

Inkwo For When The Starving Return

Inkwo For When The Starving Return

Amanda Strong // Canada // 2024 // 18:00 min

Animation

Synopsis:
Set in the future, in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures. Those that consume the earth with greed will have to fight those that protect the earth.

Animation: Deanna Partridge-David, Payton Curtis, Anna Berezowsky, Juan Soto

Producer: Nina Werewka (Spotted Fawn Productions), Shaw Rocket Fund (Shaw Rocket Fund), Maral Mohammadian

Director: Amanda Strong

Sales Agent: Elise Labbé (Office National du Film du Canada)

Script: Richard Van Camp, Amanda Strong, Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Sound Design: Ramachandra Borcar

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