SAND Presents
Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing
Ancestral Wisdom
for Collective Healing
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SAND Presents
Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing
Remembering Where We Belong
The film is subtitled in Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
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RELEASE DATE
June 3 2025
Synopsis
The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and their Indigenous cultures. Voices from around the world and across generations call us to witness the deep, ongoing scars of colonization on lands and peoples, and the healing that comes through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine stories, we grapple with colonial legacies, intergenerational trauma, our own fragmentation and culture of separation.
The film reveals how modernity severs our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm, while feeding us empty promises of salvation, unlimited consumption, and individual happiness. As we are drawn into the intricate web of kinship and honoring the living presence of Mother Earth, we awaken a remembrance. A sacred dance comes to life and we begin to hear the eternal song of Life itself, calling us back to belonging.
Project Vision
12-Film Collection
The Eternal Song is accompanied by 12 additional feature-length films, each focusing in depth on one of the lands and peoples we visited.
Kinship, Community, and Belonging
The Vision
The film exposes the ongoing efforts to erase indigenous cultures and the resulting cycles of intergenerational trauma. It contrasts the Western framework of human dominance over Earth, and God’s rule over humans, with indigenous, earth-based, animist spirituality. Moving visually in a nonlinear, lyrical way, it looks beyond binaries to uncover resilience emerging from trauma and traces the roots of healing in the recovery of culture, land, and ceremonies. Sowing wisdom through the stories it tells, it pits the madness of colonialism against the resilience of indigenous spirit.
