Official Selections

Synopsis: Shayla Stonefeather (Tonantzin Carmelo) a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns home to the reservation to visit her dying father. Strange visions and ghostly voices propel her on a journey she doesn't expect. Thought Shayla initially rejects a spiritual explanation for her experiences, she begins to uncover what she believes is a link between the visions and her brother's disappearance two years earlier. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Shayla deliberately confronts and follows the apparitions, leading her to a horrifying revelation and a purpose she could never have foreseen.

Synopsis: An experimental personal narrative nonfiction video about Konechne's internal/external journey home to capture the lives of South Dakota rural women, and thos who have left. Konechne seeks to tell the history of the place, the relationship of its women to the prairie, and the increasingly hostile economics that render farm life all but extinct.

Synopsis: When Annika got a sacred eagle feather from an Indian visiting Sweden, she decided to bring it back to the US. But to whom? Her quest to find the right owner took her deep into Indian communities, where she learned about the anger and sadness of traditional Natives. But would the feather find an owner?

Additional Information: The producers of the South Dakota Film Festival have been notified that this screening will be the film's "World Premier".