No screenings on Monday, January 12, and Saturday, January 24. All programs subject to change.

A Thousand Roads (2005, 40 min.) Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho). A Thousand Roads threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child. Each story explores what it means to belong to a specific community.

More than a Museum (2007, 10 min.) Produced by the National Museum of the American Indian. A brief look at the history of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York and its dynamic programs.

Snowsnake: Game of the Haudenosaunee (2006, 11 min.) Produced by the NMAI Resource Center, George Gustav Heye Center. Featuring master snow snake maker and player Fred Kennedy (Seneca), this video introduces the lively traditional game that's played today by Iroquois men in competitions throughout Haudenosaunee lands in the Northeast and in Canada.

Join the Thunderbird Indian Dancers and Singers, directed by Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago), in an evening of traditional social dancing. Heyna Second Sons are the featured drum group. Bring your family and enjoy the festivities.

Programs are subject to change. Additional screening at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 19. No screenings on Saturday, February 7; Wednesday - Thursday, February 11 - 12; and Wednesday - Thursday, February 18 -19.

North Peak (2008, 4 min.) CANADA. Jarrett Twoyoungmen (Stoney) and Trent Twoyoungmen (Stoney). An animated tale in the Stoney language about a mouse who wishes to become an eagle.

Raven Tales: Bald Eagle (2007, 25 min.) CANADA. Executive producer: Chris Kientz (Cherokee). From a series grounded in ancient myths about the roles played in creation by Eagle, Raven and Frog. When the Great Spirit, accompanied by the trio, journeys to see the world, Eagle learns he needs to have a sense of humor.

Wapos Bay: The Elements (2006. 24 min.) Melanie Jackson (Cree). From a series about the adventures of three Cree children living in remote northern Saskatchewan. Disaster nearly happens when the children are helping their mushom (grandfather) set up a cultural camp, and bad weather hits.

Presented in conjunction with Americas Society's exhibition Moon Tears: Mapuche Art and Cosmology. For more information go to www.americas-society.org. At the Movies is made possible in part by support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.

Programs are subject to change. No screenings at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 5.

The Creation: A Blackfoot Legend (2007, 4 min.) US. Keith Carter (Blackfoot). Produced by the National Museum of the American Indian. The genesis of the earth and the beginning of man according to the Blackfoot Indian myth.

Elal and the Animals (2007, 15 min.) CHILE. Ana María Pávez. In Spanish with English subtitles. Based on a myth of the Aonikenk (Tehuelche) people about the origin of the Earth. The culture hero Elal faces the wrath of his father, Noshtex, who is envious of his son's special powers and wants to kill him. To save the boy, the animals take him to the distant land of Patagonia, the homeland of his descendants today.

Los Chulpas (2007, 7 min.) SPAIN. Alex Moya. In Spanish with English subtitles. In the days before the sun existed, the "Chulpas," ancient beings of the Atacama desert of Chile, worshipped the moon, until one day�

Through the Blue Tunnel (2007, 24 min.) CANADA. Carol Geddes (Tlingit). Part of the series Anash and the Legacy of the Sun-Rock. Two young men fight their way over a treacherous glacier to the land of the White Eyes people in search of one of the pieces of the mythic Sun-Rock. In their quest they learn about the value of selflessness, especially when their hosts respond in kind.

Two Scoops (2008, 3 min.) CANADA. Jacqueline Traverse (Ojibwe). Hand-drawn animation highlights one family's experience with over four decades of child welfare systems.

Petit Prince (2007, 6 min.) CANADA. Vincent Papatie (Algonquin).
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Productions Les Beaux Jours. In French with English subtitles. A young man recounts his origin as a "little prince," and how he faced the difficulties he encountered in growing up.

The 14th Native American Film + Video Festival will be held in New York City, March 26 - 29. Screenings are each evening, and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons. This year the festival, founded in 1979, celebrates its 30th anniversary, and includes feature films, short fictions, documentaries, experimental videos, animations and Native television productions. The festival showcases more than 70 outstanding films from Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela, and the United States, and brings together Native media makers from throughout the hemisphere to introduce their productions and exchange ideas.

Works are selected from an extensive number of submissions by a team comprised of guest media makers and cultural activists, and the program staff of the NMAI Film and Video Center. This year's guest selectors are Nanobah Becker (Navajo), Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho), Fred Rickard (Cree), and Zezinho Yube (Kaxinawa).

All programs are free to the public. Support for the festival has come from The Academy Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Smithsonian Latino Initiative.

For more information go to www.nativenetworks.si.edu.

All programs subject to change. No screenings on Monday - Tuesday, April 20 - 21.

Mémère Métisse (2008, 30 min.) CANADA. Janelle Wookey (Métis). The filmmaker resourcefully campaigns for her grandmother to embrace the richness of their Métis heritage.

Umiaq Skin Boat (2008, 31 min.) CANADA. Jobie Weetaluktuk (Inuit). In Inuktitut with English subtitles. When elders of the Inuit community of Inukjuak in northern Quebec decide to revive the lost art of making a traditional umiaq, a filmmaker from the community captures their experiences.