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New Mexico’s Premiere Native & Indigenous Film Festival
The Red Nation International Film Festival (RNIFF) is the world’s largest Native Indigenous film festival and the longest-running of its kind in New Mexico. Presented annually by RNCI each November, RNIFF has been empowering Native Indigenous storytellers since 1995.

Amplifying more than 5000+ Native and Indigenous content creators through its streaming company Red Nation Television Network, supporting 2855+ Native Indigenous filmmakers through its Red Nation International Film Festival, including films directed by women through its Native Women in Film & Television in All Media. In the past eight years RNIFF has screened 215 films directed by women.

The Red Nation International Film Festival is the connection to cultural bridging of independent Native Indigenous artists and audiences, amplifying emerging voices and perspectives for the Native Indigenous storyteller. 

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29th Red Nation International Film Festival New Mexico’s Premiere Native & Indigenous Film Festival.

RNCI New Mexico
Powwow Highway

Powwow Highway
35th Anniversary

In Partnership with Janus Films

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Powwow Highway is the groundbreaking Native film that revolutionized the industry and forever transformed the Native Narrative, trailblazing a path for Indigenous storytelling in cinema.

Two Cheyenne Indian friends with very different outlooks on life set off on a road trip. Philbert Bono (Gary Farmer) is a spiritual seeker trying to find the answers to life’s questions; his pal, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez), is a realist who sees the world in black-and-white terms. When Buddy’s sister Bonnie Red Bow (Joanelle Romero) is jailed in Santa Fe, N.M., the mismatched duo hit the highway in Philbert’s dilapidated 1964 Buick and experience wild twists and turns on their journey of self-discovery.

Bones of Crows

Bones of Crows
Award Winning

Goes home with Six RNCI Red Nation Awards

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Removed from their family home and forced into Canada’s residential school system, Cree musical prodigy Aline and her siblings are plunged into a struggle for survival. Bones of Crows is Aline’s journey from child to matriarch, a moving multi-generational epic of resilience, survival and the pursuit of justice.

YINTAH

Yintah
Oscar Contender

In Partnership with Netflix

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Spanning more than a decade, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth.

YINTAH is about an anti-colonial resurgence—a fierce and ongoing fight for Indigenous and human rights in the face of a colonial government committed to seizing lands at gunpoint.

Wet’suwet’en land is unceded: There is no treaty, no bill of sale, or no surrender placing the land under Canadian authority. In 1997, the Dinï ze’ and Tsakë ze’ (Hereditary Chiefs) of the Wet’suwet’en people proved in Canada’s top court that they had never given up ownership to 22,000km2 of land.

RNCI RNIFF Gold Logo

31 YEARS OF IMPACT

Elevating Native and Indigenous Voices Through Storytelling

Celebrating Culture & Community

Red Nation International Film Festival (RNIFF) is the largest Native & Indigenous Film Festival in the U.S. and worldwide!

The first of its kind in Los Angeles.

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