IndiFest 2025: Indigenous cinema that breaks down borders
From 8 to 17 October 2025, Barcelona hosts the 18th edition of IndiFest, www.indifest.org, the Indigenous Film Festival that has become an international benchmark for culture, resistance, and diversity. Under the motto “Borders”This edition invites us to reflect on the physical, symbolic, and political boundaries that affect Indigenous peoples, and how film can be a tool to dismantle, question, or redefine them.
Organized by alternativa Exchange with Indigenous Peoples In collaboration with CLACPIIndiFest 2025 will offer in-person and online screenings, debates with Indigenous leaders, workshops, and advocacy activities. The selected films—documentaries, fiction, animations, and experimental formats—will be works that promote Indigenous authorship, the defense of human rights, cultural identity, and the communication of Indigenous peoples.
Featured films include: “Txa'kri: Voices of the Cerrado”, a Brazilian documentary that denounces the advance of agribusiness on ancestral territories; “Woman of the Earth”, a Peruvian fiction film that portrays the spiritual connection between women and the land in contexts of extractive violence; and “Black Snow”, a Chilean animation that narrates the Mapuche worldview from childhood. Short films from Amazonian communities, Afrofeminist stories, and experimental pieces that explore audiovisual language from a decolonial perspective will also be screened.
IndiFest is not just a festival: it's a space for encounter, active listening, and transformation. In a world of multiplying borders, Indigenous cinema reminds us that there are other ways of inhabiting, narrating, and resisting. Barcelona once again becomes a platform for voices that deserve to be heard. Don't miss it.
