Wisdom of the Ancestors 13-Film Documentary Series
Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing
For tens of thousands of years, indigenous peoples were in deep kinship with the natural world while stewarding ancestral land and wisdom. Through the narratives of colonialism, capitalism, and individualism, our “modern” Western mindset has cast a collective fog of amnesia, and lead us into believing that we are separate from the Earth, each other, and the ancestral realm.
In May of 2022, a small film crew began traveling and exploring the devastating impact of colonization on indigenous people and lands, and cultures. What started as a single film, The Eternal Song, organically evolved into a larger project encompassing twelve documentaries, honoring the unique story of each indigenous community visited.
Each community shared its journey of healing intergenerational trauma while preserving its culture, language, and ceremonies which remain rooted in a profound relationship to land and ancestral wisdom. They all reminded us that our collective future depends on remembering our kinship with Mother Earth and listening to the eternal song of existence which calls us back to our original sense of belonging.
Each film opens a portal into the ancestral wisdom of these cultures, calling us to remember, grieve, heal, and act.
Your Hosts: Experience Change & The Road Less Traveled Counseling Center
Designed For: Anyone! ALL ARE WELCOME
Location: Virtual Screenings through Kinema (Registration Links below).
Community Screening Size: Only 25 Seats per Virtual Screening and 220 Seats per In-Person Screening at The People’s Building (Aurora, CO). Register now to grab your seats! If you are unable to attend after registering, please cancel your registration to allow someone else to fill your spot.
Post-Film Conversations: Join us for conversation after the film to reflect and be in community! Selected screenings will have post-film conversations (see below) via Zoom. If you register for a screening with a post-film conversation AND provide your email to the host when registering, you will receive the zoom link via email the day prior to the screening. The zoom link will also be provided during the screening if you would prefer to not share your email.
Cost: FREE!
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Learn More About the Films: https://TheEternalSong.org/
2026 Communal Film Screenings
92 Minutes
The Eternal Song
The first film and introduction to the series is The Eternal Song, 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, and the healing that comes through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine stories, we grapple with colonial legacies, intergenerational trauma, our own fragmentation and culture of separation. The film reveals how modernity severs our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm, while feeding us empty promises of salvation, unlimited consumption and 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:
- Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 10am-12:15pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: FULL!
- Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 9-10:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: CLOSED!
- Wed, Feb 4, 2026 7-8:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: FULL!
- Fri, Feb 20, 2026 12-2:15pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: FULL!
- Thurs, April 23, 2026, 6:30-8:00pm MT– In Person Screening @ The People’s Building (Aurora, CO): CLOSED!
70 Minutes
Mauri
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:
- Sat, March 7, 2026, 9-10:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: CLOSED!
- Fri, March 20, 2026, 10am-12pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: CLOSED!
- Wed, April 8, 2026 7-8:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: CLOSED!
- Fri, April 17, 2026 10am-12pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: CLOSED!
- Thurs, June 11, 2026, 6:30-8:00pm MT– In Person Screening @ The People’s Building (Aurora, CO): CLOSED!
92 MINUTES
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.
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Screening Dates & Times:
- Sat, May 2, 2026, 9-10:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: CLOSED!
- Thurs, May 14, 2026, 10am-12pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: CLOSED!
- Wed, June 3, 2026 7-8:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: CLOSED!
- Thurs, June 18, 2026 10am-12pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: CLOSED!
- Tues, September 29, 2026, 6:30-9:00pm MT– In Person Screening @ The People’s Building (Aurora, CO): REGISTER HERE
75 Minutes
In the Circle of Life
Across the continent now called Australia, ancient songlines remain alive with ancestral memory. This film walks with First Nations Elders, healers and artists as they navigate the history of colonization through the enduring strength of their culture. Through ceremony, language, and kinship with Country, we witness the living presence of the oldest continuous culture on Earth. It is an invitation to face our shared history and remember our place within the circle of life.
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Screening Dates & Times:
- Sat, July 11, 2026, 9-10:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: CLOSED!
- Thurs, July 16, 2026, 12-2pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: CLOSED!
- Wed, August 5, 2026, 7-8:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: CLOSED!
- Fri, August 28, 2026, 10am-12pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: CLOSED!
- Thurs, December 17, 2026, 6:30-8:00pm MT– In Person Screening @ The People’s Building (Aurora, CO): REGISTRATION COMING SOON
76 MINUTES
Kato: Dreams of Dark Earth
Travel deep into the Tapajós River basin, to the Amazonian village of Sawré Muybu, where the Munduruku people of Sawré Muybu are fighting for the sanctity of their dreams. Mercury from illegal gold mining does not just poison the water; it severs the ancestral memory that flows between the body and the river. Katô follows the Munduruku through their decades-long struggle for land and clean water, revealing a world where daily survival is an act of resistance.
Refusing to wait for government recognition, the community has taken up the mantle of self-demarcation, putting their bodies on the line to map their own return. Supporting them is a women-led video collective that transforms cameras into visual arrows, documenting the destruction while affirming a vitality that cannot be extracted. By reclaiming the Katô—the ancestral Dark Earth—the Munduruku remind us that the soil is a living witness. Their fight for the land is not merely local; it is a desperate defense of the lungs of Mother Earth, upon which all life depends.
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Screening Dates & Times:
- Sat, September 5, 2026, 9-10:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: CLOSED!
- Fri, September 11, 2026, 12-2pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: CLOSED!
- Wed, October 7, 2026, 7-8:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: REGISTER HERE
- Fri, October 9, 2026, 10am-12pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: REGISTER HERE
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81 MINUTES
Little Singer
Amidst the wide horizons of Diné land, the legacy of historical trauma echoes through generations. At the center, a medicine man and a small school, where grief and resilience meet in song, teaching, and k’é (kinship). Little Singer is rooted in the land; carrying the vision and medicine of k’é for those yet to come.
“K’K’é is the shortest word and so simple… but it is the seedling of who we are. Relationship and kinship, love, belonging.” — Albert Brent Chase, Language teacher at Little Singer School
Screening Dates & Times:
- Sat, November 7, 2026, 9-10:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: REGISTER HERE
- Thurs, November 12, 2026, 12-2pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: REGISTER HERE
- Thurs, December 3, 2026, 12-2pm MT– Virtual Screening + Post-Film Conversation: REGISTER HERE
- Wed, December 9, 2026, 7-8:30pm MT– Virtual Screening: REGISTER HERE