The Ancestor

Ancestor

Ancestor is a new dance film in four parts by award-winning Dublin choreographer Fiona Quilligan. This immersive work, beautifully captured on film in the woods of Cruagh, Co. Dublin, brings us closer to nature through v

Ancestor

Examining the divine female figure in West African sculpture through an exploration of the director/animator’s Bété ancestry, drawing upon the spiritual iconography of the Bété people.

Ancestor House

A dream of ancestors dreaming, a dream of their soft nostalgias and murmurs from the underworld.

Dear Ancestor

2067. A mother tells her daughter about her ancestor’s struggle against a large-scale rare earth mining project in Madagascar, and the resistance of the people in the north of the Great Red Island, faced with the systema

The Ancestor

Ancestor

The film examines the divine female figure in West African sculpture through an exploration of the director/animator’s Bété ancestry, drawing upon the spiritual iconography of the Bété people and other tribal groups on t

Future Ancestor

Scholar and poet Lyla June (Diné/Cheyenne) challenges the status quo when she decides to run for House of Representatives in New Mexico’s District 47.

Angry Urban Ancestor

An "unauthorized" sculpture built in the remnants of a low-rent apartment building in downtown San Diego that burned down after a tenant fell asleep while smoking in bed.

Abánisétè: The Ancestor

A treasure. A power beyond borders. When outsiders seek to control what they don't understand… A battle begins! Africa, rise. This is our story

Good Enough Ancestor

Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s first Minister of Digital Development and the world’s first transgender minister, faces a 50% chance of waking each morning due to a congenital heart condition. Her life mirrors Taiwan's transformat

The Little Ancestor

An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive the passage of time.

The Homeless Ancestor

We cannot escape from bureaucracy in life as well as in death. Quickie promises his grandma to handle the forced removal of his great-grand aunt’s niche. But without the ancestor’s identity documents, Quickie cannot appl

Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link

Explores the story behind the discovery of an early primate fossil, Darwinius masillae, nicknamed Ida, in a shale quarry in Germany. The fossil is believed to be around 47 million years old, and is extraordinarily well-p

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offerin

Deconstruction of the Ancestor

“I’m trying to reach my roots to understand myself better, but what I face is the darkness of tradition and cruelty of past centuries. So I decided to invent an ancestor on my own. And I'll put him on like people put on

Ancestor in Search of Gold

A tomb-raider from the Eastern Han Dynasty is frozen in time, and wakes up thousands of years later in 1930 after his crypt is blown open with dynamite. While he navigates this new world and searches for his missing wife

Toumai: The Oldest Human Ancestor

Buried beneath the sand for seven million years, a skull is unearthed in Chad that may provide evidence of the oldest known human ancestor.

Ancestor's Thatched Hut

A documentary short.

Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me)

The word bone translates to yoruba as “bones.” In Egungun: Ancestor Can’t Find Me, a shell-covered sea creature swims emerges form the Gulf of Mexico and wanders island jungles and shores. The shelled creature we see wan