The 2025 Seattle International Film Festival featured cINeDIGENOUS, showcasing the best in Indigenous cinema.
Highlighted was the NorthWest Premiere of Choctaw tribal member Colleen Thurston’s “Drowned Land,” a feature documentary that shares the stories of a group of water protectors, deep in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, determined to preserve the lifeline of their community and end a cycle of environmental exploitation on the Kiamichi River. Watch the trailer here, https://drownedland.com/home#trailer.