For this week’s ancillary programme, NTU Film Society’s programming team seeks to break with the white domination of queer narratives, including explorations on Indigenous communities' particular negotiations of queerness and gender performance. We will be screening I Dream In Another Language (2017) by dir. Ernesto Contreras and Two Spirits (2009) by dir. Lydia Nibley.

I Dream In Another Language Synopsis: A linguist arrives in a small jungle settlement hoping to record a conversation between two elderly men, the last two remaining speakers of the Zikril language. Unfortunately for him, the men are feuding and haven't spoken to each other in 50 years.

Two Spirits Synopsis: Filmmaker Lydia Nibley examines the 2001 murder of Fred Martinez, a transgendered teenager of American Indian descent.

Check out the trailers for I Dream In Another Language & Two Spirits!

✏️ Directors Ernesto Contreras’s bios: 

Ernesto Contreras is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Contreras graduated from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM. His shorts have received several national and international awards, like the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy for Best Short Film in 2004, for The non-invited.

✏️ Director Lydia Nibley’s bio: 

Lydia Nibley is an award-winning producer, director, writer, script doctor, and creative consultant for film, books, and television. Lydia has collaborated on numerous film and television projects appearing in theatres globally and airing on National Geographic, the BBC, PBS, CBC, and elsewhere. She’s been honored to receive the PBS Audience Award for her documentary Two Spirits as well as Parents’ Choice, Clio, regional Emmy, and numerous film festival awards for a variety of projects. She also produces for her company Riding The Tiger Productions.