North Dakota Human Rights Film & Arts Festival

12/06/2023

Hi North Dakotains, Come and join us for the film that will change how you think about the Bible. We are delighted to bring back 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted a Culture to The Arts Center In Jamestown, ND. on December 12th at 7PM. The screening is free and open to all ages.

11/14/2023

Join us on Thursday, November 16, at the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library for a special screening of WOMEN RULE. The third episode of the PBS series NATIVE AMERICA.

The episode focuses on Native women leading, innovating, and inspiring in the arts, politics, and protecting the planet. It explores the diverse ways they carry forward deep traditions to better their communities, the land, and the world.

Director Paige Bethmann and Ruth Anna Buffalo, who is featured in the episode, will join us for a Q&A following the screening. Dr. Cheryl Kary, Executive Director of the Sacred Pipe Resource Center, will be hosting the discussion.

The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:00. The event starts at 6:30. Women Rule is an episode of the PBS series Native America, which is produced by Providence Pictures to your event listing.

Learn more at

https://ndhrff23.eventive.org/schedule/women-rule-64314b97bd7a2a002ce08de4

11/13/2023

Join us tonight (Monday, November 13) for a special screening of IMAGINING THE INDIAN in Grand Forks at the Empire Arts Center. Doors open at 6:00, and the screening begins at 6:30.

Filmmakers Ben West and Yancey Burns will join the screening for a Q&A following the film. Joe Williams, Director of Indigenous Programming with the Plains Art Museum, will host the discussion.

The event is free and open to the public. Reservations are not needed but appreciated.

This event is supported in partnership by the Plains Art Museum and The Human Family.

Learn more at

https://ndhrff23.eventive.org/schedule/imagining-the-indian-the-fight-against-native-american-mascoting-64314c3f0c0d3600665d7cf9

Everyone

11/10/2023

Kick off our final day with On These Grounds, an indepth look into police presence in schools and connecting historical context

Synopsis :A video goes viral, showing a white police officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her school desk and throw her across the floor. Healer-Activist Vivian Anderson uproots her life in New York City to move to South Carolina to support the girl and dismantle the system behind the assault at Spring Valley, including facing the police officer. Adding context, geographer Janae Davis treks the surrounding swamps and encounters the homes of formerly enslaved people of African descent, connecting the past to the present.

11/10/2023

It's no secret that our policies on immigration are a hot mess. There are some folks doing the good work to help ease this crisis. Our 9PM film, Las Abogadas: Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis delves into their work.

Synopsis: Las Abogadas follows four immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey beginning in 2018 as the U.S. government under President Trump upends every law to protect those fleeing from violence and war – and into 2021 when things fail to get better (and in some ways get worse) under President Biden. We watch the valiant efforts of our protagonists: Rebecca Eichler setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen van in the middle of 5,000 desperate migrants; Charlene D’Cruz forcing border guards to follow the law and accept three disabled children into U.S. custody; Mulu Alemayehu crossing the border to counsel African migrants stuck in Tijuana; Jodi Goodwin giving legal advice in the brutally hot Mexican sun to families desperate to see American soil. We watch our subjects’ arduous journeys to try and overcome a broken system, and we follow the stories of the migrants who they work frantically to try and help.

11/10/2023

Did you enjoy Barbie the movie? We loved the nod to representation but we adore the historical deep dive that our Friday night film does. Join us at 7PM for BLACK BARBIE, We will also have some spoken word provided by .

Synopsis: A necessary and timely counter-punch to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 BARBIE film, BLACK BARBIE delves into the transformative arrival of Mattel’s groundbreaking Black Barbie. By examining the ways that the absence of black images in the “social mirror” left Black girls with few opportunities for self-reflection — and dissecting the complex cross section of merchandise and representation — BLACK BARBIE celebrates the Black women who refuse to be invisible and their struggle to elevate their own voices and stories.

11/09/2023

Join us at 7PM for Dancing in A-yard and stay for a conversation with Lenard Wells, formerly of F5.

Synopsis: In prisons ruled by toxic masculinity, dancing is an absolute taboo. But at Lancaster’s A-Yard, near Los Angeles, 10 young men are breaking this taboo by inviting French choreographer Dimitri to create a contemporary dance class, signaling a huge step towards their rehabilitation and hope for release back into society and ultimately creating a new prison culture.

11/08/2023

It’s opening night. Join us at the Fargo Theatre for A Reflection of Life at 7pm

11/08/2023

11/08/2023

OPENING NIGHT- Join us at the Fargo Theatre for A REFLECTION OF LIFE with Director Jesse Locke and Narrator/Producer Acosia Red Elk in conversation post co-presented with The Indigenious Association.

Synopsis: “A Reflection of Life” explores water issues in the Pacific Northwest, while noting the broader issues facing the entire West, with an emphasis on amplifying Indigenous voices. Filmmaker Jesse Locke interviewed members of The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Chugach Alaska Native Corporation and Valdez Native Tribes, The Klamath Tribes, The Nez Perce Tribe, The Hopi Tribe, and Standing Rock Tribe to gather the Indigenous stories and wisdom featured in the film.

11/07/2023

Join us for our closing program at 8:30PM sparking a conversation around MMIW. We open the program with Who She Is which seaks to uplift the situation around MMIW and urges us to say their names. Followed up by Native and female directed Gift of Fear, a tur de force which explores the effects of MMIW on a reservation community and enacts swift and thourough justice.

11/06/2023

Saturday night 6PM join us for Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting with filmmaker Ben West and producer Yancy Burns in a post-film conversation with Joe Williams. Before that we do a short and beautiful deep dive in the cultural significance of the American Bison in Wallowing Bull.