Skoden Indigenous Film Festival (SIFF) is a two-day film festival which features work from across Turtle Island by Indigenous filmmakers, actors, directors, and creatives. Held on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Wauthuth Peoples, SIFF is screened in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at Simon Fraser University, the alma mater of Co-Founders Carr Sappier (Wolastoqey, they/them), and Grace Mathisen (she/her). The festival was founded in 2019, when the founders were in their fourth year of school, and it works to Indigenize SFU and decolonize the film industry in so-called Vancouver and beyond. SIFF is organized and led by a class of students from all over SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, and co-taught for the last four years by Carr Sappier and Kathleen Mullen (she/her).

Attendees will have the opportunity to attend four different shorts programs across the two days of the festival: Retracing Our Roots, Sea to Sky, Planting the Seed, and All my Affections, along with feature film, WaaPake (Jules Koostachin), accompanied by short film March with Arch (Toby Mak). This year we are excited to be featuring work by returning artists, as well as first-time submissions to SIFF. Some of the artists and films featured are as follows; Amanda Strong (Spirit Bear: Honouring Memories, Planting Dreams), Jay Cardinal Villeneuve (Buffalo Testicles for the Soul), and Lindsay McIntyre (NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ [The South Wind]).