What is The Walls Between Us about?

“Sikumi” (On the Ice) (2008, United States, 15 min.) Apuna, a hunter, drives his dog team out on the frozen Arctic Ocean in search of seals, but instead witnesses a murder. Director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean is Iñupiaq, born and raised in Alaska. In Iñupiaq with English subtitles. Los Angeles Premiere: “White Mountain” (2006, East Kurdistan (Iran), 30 min.) In this elegant story, an elderly Kurd caught in the Kurdish civil war of the 1990s wishes for a simpler life. Director Taha Kerimi is from Banah – in eastern Kurdistan. This is his fourth short film. In Kurdish with English subtitles. GUARDING THE FAMILY SILVER, 2005, New Zealand, 46 min. This film takes a look at the affect of intellectual property on the Maori and the misuse of traditional symbols, images, and words in the global marketplace. Directors Toby Mills (Ngti Raukawa and Ngi te Rangi) and Moana Maniapoto (Te Arawa and Ngti Twharetoa) are from New Zealand. In English and Maori with English subtitles.

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What is The Walls Between Us about?: “Sikumi” (On the Ice) (2008, United States, 15 min.) Apuna, a hunter, drives his dog team out on the frozen Arctic Ocean in search of seals, but instead witnesses a murder. Director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean is Iñupiaq, born and raised in Alaska. In Iñupiaq with English subtitles. Los Angeles Premiere: “White Mountain” (2006, East Kurdistan (Iran), 30 min.) In this elegant story, an elderly Kurd caught in the Kurdish civil war of the 1990s wishes for a simpler life. Director Taha Kerimi is from Banah – in eastern Kurdistan. This is his fourth short film. In Kurdish with English subtitles. GUARDING THE FAMILY SILVER, 2005, New Zealand, 46 min. This film takes a look at the affect of intellectual property on the Maori and the misuse of traditional symbols, images, and words in the global marketplace. Directors Toby Mills (Ngti Raukawa and Ngi te Rangi) and Moana Maniapoto (Te Arawa and Ngti Twharetoa) are from New Zealand. In English and Maori with English subtitles.