Wisdom of the Ancestors 12-Film Series
Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing
For countless generations, Indigenous peoples lived in intimate relationship with the natural world, caring for ancestral lands and safeguarding ancient knowledge. However, the forces of colonialism, capitalism, and individualism have shaped a “modern” Western worldview that clouds our collective memory, convincing us that we are separate from the Earth, from one another, and from our ancestors.
In May 2022, a small film team set out to document the profound effects of colonization on Indigenous communities, their lands, and their cultures. What began as a single film, The Eternal Song, naturally expanded into a broader initiative comprising twelve documentaries, each honoring the distinct story of an Indigenous community.
Across these communities, stories emerged of healing generational trauma while protecting cultural traditions, languages, and ceremonies deeply grounded in relationship to the land and ancestral knowledge. Together, they remind us that our shared future depends on restoring our connection to Mother Earth and heeding the timeless call of existence that guides us back to our inherent sense of belonging.
Hosts: The Road Less Traveled Counseling Center & Experience Change
Who It’s For: Everyone! All are welcome, exactly as you are.
Location: Virtual screenings hosted through Kinema
Screening Size: Each communal screening is limited to 25 participants to create an intimate, shared experience. Please register early to reserve your virtual seat. If your plans change and you’re unable to attend, we kindly ask that you cancel your registration so someone else may join.
Post-Film Conversations: We invite you to stay after the film for a reflective conversation and time in community. Select screenings will include a post-film discussion via Zoom (details below). If you register for a screening with a post-film conversation and choose to share your email, you’ll receive the Zoom link the day before the screening. Prefer not to share your email? No problem — the Zoom link will also be shared during the screening.
Cost: Free to attend 💛
2026 Communal Film Screenings
The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and their Indigenous cultures. Voices from around the world and across generations invite us to witness the deep, ongoing scars of colonization on lands and peoples, as well as the healing that comes through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine stories, we grapple with colonial legacies, intergenerational trauma, our own fragmentation, and a culture of separation.
The film reveals how modernity severs our connection to nature, to one another, and to the ancestral realm, while offering us empty promises of salvation, unlimited consumption, economic growth, and individual happiness. As we are drawn into the intricate web of kinship and honoring the living presence of Mother Earth, we awaken a remembrance. A sacred dance comes to life, and we begin to hear the eternal song of Life itself, calling us back to belonging.
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Screening Dates & Times:
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Wed, Feb 7, 2026 7-8:30 pm MT- Virtual Screening: REGISTRATION COMING SOON
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Fri, Feb 20, 2026 12-2:15 pm MT- Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: https://kinema.com/events/The-Eternal-Song-264prv
Mauri is a cinematic invitation into the healing traditions of Aotearoa, a journey carried by Māori healers, elders, and knowledge keepers who tend to intergenerational wounds through land, language, and ceremony. Filmed in close relationship with those who carry ancestral wisdom, Mauri reveals how healing is not an individual pursuit but a collective remembering – guided by spirit, whenua (land), and the relational threads that colonial disruption could not sever. With breathtaking imagery and intimate storytelling, the film brings us into the spaces where trauma is not “treated” but held, where stories, prayers, medicines, and rituals offer pathways back to connection. Mauri does not explain Māori healing. It moves with it – listening to what still pulses beneath silence, and honoring what remains alive in the hands of those who never forgot.
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Screening Dates & Times:
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Sat, March 7, 2026, 9-10:30 pm MT- Virtual Screening: REGISTRATION COMING SOON
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Fri, March 20, 2026, 10-12 pm MT- Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: https://kinema.com/events/Mauri-9frkou
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Wed, April 1, 2026 7-8:30 pm MT- Virtual Screening: REGISTRATION COMING SOON
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Fri, April 17, 2026 10-12 pm MT- Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: REGISTRATION COMING SOON
If An Owl Calls Your Name
Patricia June Vickers, her brother Roy Henry Vickers, and other Indigenous Elders, healers, and activists from the Esk’etemc, Gitxsan, and Wet’suwet’en territories open their hearts and histories in this deeply human story of healing. Born into a world shaped by the violence of forced assimilation, they carry the intergenerational impact of residential schools, scars that ripple through memory, body, and lineage. Through trauma healing work, ceremony, land, and language, they navigate the deep echoes of intergenerational trauma, transforming disconnection, substance use, and cultural grief into profound pathways of healing and deep remembrance.
Watch the Trailer
Screening Dates & Times: TBD
If An Owl Calls Your Name
Patricia June Vickers, her brother Roy Henry Vickers, and other Indigenous Elders, healers, and activists from the Esk’etemc, Gitxsan, and Wet’suwet’en territories open their hearts and histories in this deeply human story of healing. Born into a world shaped by the violence of forced assimilation, they carry the intergenerational impact of residential schools, scars that ripple through memory, body, and lineage. Through trauma healing work, ceremony, land, and language, they navigate the deep echoes of intergenerational trauma, transforming disconnection, substance use, and cultural grief into profound pathways of healing and deep remembrance.
Watch the Trailer
Screening Dates & Times: TBD
Little Singer
Coming Soon
Screening Dates & Times: TBD
Sila
Coming Soon
Screening Dates & Times: TBD