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QIIFF

Quetzalcoatl
Indigenous 
International 
Film 
Festival 

Quetzalcoatl Indigenous International Film Festival

All Genres are welcome !

We will give priority to films that include our main theme.

Film and World Indigenous cultures exhibition for them Promotion, Education, Respect and Conservation of World Native, Aboriginal and Indigenous Cultures.

Directors and Producers are encourage to Submit all type of Films related to our Festival promotion of Native, Aboriginal and Indigenous Cultures.
The Realization of these Films with the best input of Art and Talent in their Creation will be taking into account also.

The Quetzalcoalt Indigenous International Film Festival encourage Fiction Films, Documentary Films, Anthropology Films, Research Films, Human Rights with focus on Native, Aboriginal and Indigenous Exploration, Sustainability, Pride and Conservation of Heritage works of Cinema.

All Genres are Welcome and encourage to submit

Quetzalcoatl IFF
Film and World Indigenous cultures exhibition for the Promotion, Education,Respect and Conservation of World Native, Aboriginal and Indigenous Cultures.

 

ORGANIZATION

The Quetzalcoatl Indigenous International Film Festival is an independent and private organization, uninfluenced, unbiased, and non affiliated with a political or religious entity.

Arts
The mission of the Festival is to promote, propagate and explore the understanding of all forms of expression relevant to the cinema with the main priority of Indigenous and Native World Culture that Describes, promotes and documents it .Arts and sound image in motion (experimental audiovisual, short film, feature film, documentaries, public meetings, educational meetings) throughout the year and on the event dates.

Human
The aim of the Quetzalcoatl Indigenous International Film Festival is to organize the Festival each year.
This while promoting the arts, the Festival brings human communion between different cultures and societies for the growth and improvement of the human condition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

QUETZALCOATL

INDIGENOUS INTERNATIONAL

FILM FESTIVAL

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Winner

QIIFF Feature Films

 

POLINIZADORAXS

Dir. Lilia Torres

Mexico

 

LISTEN : THE LAND WAS TORN

Dir. Cassandra Mello,

Dir. Fred Rahal,

Brazil

 

THE LAND OF FORGOTTEN SONGS

Dir. Vladimir Nikolouzos

Greece

 

LIFE WITH THE PEWEN

Dir. Juan Carlos Gedda

Chile

GUARDIANS OF THE RAIN FOREST

Dir. Mariana Beltrami

Dir. Lia Beltrami 

Italy

 

 

 

 

 

Winner

QIIFF Short Films

 

MYTH OF INKARI AND PAYMEMENT BETWEEN WORLDS

Dir. Daniel Cos-Gayon

Italy, Peru, Spain

 

HOLDING ON BY A THREAD :

THE SHAL OF BAKHDEDA

Dir. Ragheed Al Banna

Iraq

 

REMEMBER – CHAPTER 1 – THE TRUE PEOPLE

Dir. Iris Johner,

Dir. Pehuen Grotti,

Mexico

 

 

WATER NOTEBOOK

Dir. Felipe Rodriguez Cerda

Chile

 

CRADLING THE HEART – MEDICAL MASSAGE FOR DIABETES TYPE 2

Dir. Leslie Korn

Mexico

Human Rights

 

More than a Refugee

Dir. Navida Ameen Nizhu

Myanmar

 

Roebourne

Dir. Paul Aidan Cooke

United Kingdom

 

I am Gustavo

Dir. Melissa Phillips

United States

 

Teen Mums : Pregnant and Trapped

Dir. Amy Gardner

United Kingdom

 

Silent Cries ( Kiayunik Tuhanak )

Dir. Navalik Tologanak

Canada

 

Sacred Flowers

Dir. Jeremy Gredone

United Sates

 

No American Left Behind

Dir. Ayush Talukder

Dir. Shreya Talukder

United States

 

 

Finding Peace

Dir. Lancelot Burton

Dir. Agnieszka Pajor

Canada

 

The Returned

Dir. Pieter De Vos

Belgium

 

Children of the Sun, keep it up

Dir. Jyun Wu

Taiwan

 

La Lixeira – La Dignidad de lo Invisible

Dir. Guido Galante

Dir. Antonio Notarangelo

Italy

 

 

 

 

Jury’s Award

Bring them Home

Dir. Ivan MacDonald,

Dir. Ivy MacDonald,

Dir. Daniel Glick

United States

 

Mystic Maya, Journey of Initiation

Dir. Douglas Kip Beechwood

United States

 

 

The Place Before Me,

Episode 4, Megafauna

Dir. Karla Nascimento

Brazil

 

And Knowledge to Keep us

Dir. Torsten Kjellstrand

United States

 

Afeni Shakur and the trial of the Panther

Dir. Ray Barron – Woolford FRSA

United States

 

The Return

Dir. Jeremy S. Levine

United States

 

Humanity

Dir. Richard Oliver

United States

 

Wiyami Ipanumitha ( Women Drum Singers )

Dir. Giona Smalleyes

Canada

 

The Power of Intention

Dir. Karolis Spinkis

Germany

 

Water is Love :

Ripples of Regeneration

Dir. Ludwig Schramm, Rosa Pannitschka, Martin Winiecki, Isabel Rosa Zabou, Emily Coralyne Bishop.

Portugal

 

In the Footsteps of Alexander Nevsky

Dir. Anna Turchaninova

Russian Federation

 

Beyond the Ruins

Dir. Brady Skye

United States

 

Mammung

Dir. Maevia Griffiths,

Dir. Lillian Robb

Australia

 

KOZUNGU

Dir. Ahmet Tolga Ayiklar

Turkey

 

Remembering the Children :

The Red Deer Indian Industrial School

Dir. Penny Gullion

Canada

AMERICAS

 

Winner

Feature Film

OAXACA AND ITS ETHNIC GROUPS:

PRIDE OF OUR ORIGEN

Dir. Alex Luke

Mexico

 

DECOLONIZING OUR YOUTH

Dir. Lyndon Suntjens

Canada

 

LUZMILA AND THE BIRDS

Dir. Pablo Mensi

Argentina

 

 

 

 

Winner

Short Film

AMERICAN INDIAN ORIGIN STORIES

Dir. Montana James Miller

United States

 

Uncommon Ground

Dir. Faith Sparrow-Crawford

Canada

 

Wayuri

Dir. Diana Gandra

Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ASIA

 

Winner

Feature Film

MADE IN PARADISE

Dir. Aniruddha Das

India

 

 

 

Winner

Short Film

NO MONASTERY NO VILLAGE

Dir. Tashi Lhazom

Nepal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EUROPE

 

Winner

Feature Film

TANYA. SUMMER. WINTER

Dir. Aleksandr Avilov

Russian Federation

 

 

 

 

 

Winner

Short Film

UKKO

Dir. Arina Mado

Russian Federation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AFRICA

 

Winner

Feature Film

THE VILLAGE OF KENOU

Dir. Niek Nicolaes

Benin, Netherlands

 

 

 

Winner

Short Film

LIGHT

Dir. Nicole Watson

United States

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OCEANIA

 

Winner

Feature Film

OUR VOICE, OUR HEART

Dir. Laurens Goud,

Dir. Justin Grant

Australia

 

 

 

Winner

Short Film

SING SINGS – KEEPERS OF THE CULTURE

Dir. Mateo Arango Guerrero

Australia

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Best Actor

 

Winner

Feature Film

Frank and Frank (or the Valley and the Walrus :

Ruminations on the Mystery from Soup to Nuts).

Dir. Adam Denis Morris

Australia

 

 

 

Winner

Short Film

Maaka Pohatu

Search for Hawaiki

Dir. Fredrick Jozef Hoani Teteira Pokai

New Zeland

 

 

 

 

 

Best Actress

 

Winner

Feature Film

Dil Kya Kahe

Geetanjali Vajpayee

Dir. Aniruddha Sharma

India

 

 

Winner

Short Film

Nigiqtuq ( The South Wind )

Dir. Lindsay Mcintyre

Canada

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Cinematography

 

Winner

Feature Film

Plague

Dir. Dimitrii Davydov

Russian Federation

 

 

 

Winner

Short Film

Myth of Inkari and payment between worlds

Dir. Daniel Cos-Gayon

Italy, Peru, Spain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Screenplay in Film

 

Winner

Feature Film

Life with the Pewen

Dir. Juan Carlos Gedda

Chile

 

 

 

Winner

Short Film

Coywolf

Dir. Zapata

United States

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Writer

 

Winner

Feature Film

The Safe

Dir. Uwe Schwarzwalder

Switzerland

 

 

 

Winner

Short Film

Remember – Chapter 1 – The True People

Dir. Iris Johner

Dir. Pehuen Grotti

Mexico

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Original Score

 

Winner

Feature Film

TARA – THE JOURNEY OF

 LOVE & PASSION

Dir. Kumar Raj ( Rajendrakumar M. R. )

India

 

 

Winner

Short Film

DESKAHEH

Dir. Allan Downey, Tekenikhon Doreen, Jersee Hill

Canada

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