If An Owl Calls Your Name

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If An Owl Calls Your Name

"It's the land, air and water. That is your therapy."

— Dinï Ze' Na'Moks

Watch the trailer for If An Owl Calls Your Name and enter your email to view the FULL film. You’ll be invited to make a donation of any amount (even $0), with the option to upgrade to the 12-film journey and talk series.

Available in the following languages: English, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian.

The Vision

Our vision for the 12-film Wisdom of the Ancestors documentary series is to honor Indigenous resilience, illuminate sacred wisdom held for humanity and Earth, and invite healing across communities facing trauma and colonial erasure.

About the film

Patricia June Vickers, her brother Roy Henry Vickers, and other Indigenous Elders, healers, and activists from the Esk’etemc, Gitxsan, and Wet’suwet’en territories open their hearts and histories in this deeply human story of healing.

The Eternal Song

12 FILM SERIES

Over the next two years, we will release a total of 12 full-length films featuring different indigenous traditions. Each film opens a portal into the ancestral wisdom of these cultures, calling us to remember, grieve, heal, and act.

The Eternal Song

LAND: EARTH

92 Minutes • WATCH NOW

Mauri

LAND: AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)

70 Minutes • WATCH NOW

If an Owl
Calls Your Name

LAND: Esk’etemc, Gitxsan, and Wet’suwet’en (CANADA)

92 MINUTES • WATCH NOW

In the Circle
of Life

LAND: BUNDJALUNG & WIRADJURI (AUSTRALIA)

75 Minutes • WATCH NOW

Katô: Dreams
of Dark Earth

LAND: DAJE KAPAP EYPI (BRAZIL)

76 MINUTES • WATCH NOW

Little Singer

LAND: DINÉ BIKÉYAH (ARIZONA)

81 MINUTES • COMING 2026

Sila

LAND: KALAALLIT NUNAAT (GREENLAND)

COMING 2026

Kuleana

LAND: MOKUPUNI HAWAI’I

COMING 2026

Guarani-Kaiowá

LAND: MATO GROSSO DO SUL (BRAZIL)

COMING 2026

Maasai

LAND: OLOSHO LE MAA (KENYA)

COMING 2027

Haida

LAND: HAIDA GWAII (CANADA)

COMING 2027

Ifá

LAND: TSENACOMOCO (VIRGINIA)

COMING 2027

See other films from SAND:

The Eternal Song

Where Olive Trees Weep

LAND: Palestine

104 Minutes • WATCH NOW

The Wisdom of Trauma

LAND: Turtle Island

87 MINUTES • WATCH NOW

In the Circle
of Life

The Eternal Song

LAND: EARTH

Mauri

LAND: AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)

If an Owl Calls
Your Name

LAND: UNIST’OT’EN YIN’TAH (CANADA)

In the
Circle of Life

LAND: BUNDJALUNG & WIRADJURI (AUSTRALIA)

Katô:
Dreams of Dark Earth

LAND: DAJE KAPAP EYPI (BRAZIL)

Little Singer

LAND: DINÉ BIKÉYAH (ARIZONA)

Sila

LAND: KALAALLIT NUNAAT (GREENLAND)

Kuleana

LAND: MOKUPUNI HAWAI’I

Guarani-Kaiowá

LAND: MATO GROSSO DO SUL (BRAZIL)

Maasai

LAND: OLOSHO LE MAA (KENYA)

Haida

LAND: HAIDA GWAII (CANADA)

Ifá

LAND: TSENACOMOCO (VIRGINIA)

See other films from SAND:

Where Olive Trees Weep

LAND: Palestine

The Wisdom of Trauma

LAND: Turtle Island

Enter your email to view the FULL film. You’ll be invited to make a donation of any amount (even$0), with the option to upgrade to the 12-film journey and talk series.

We know through sacred ceremony the reconciliation is already done.

Patricia June Vickers, Indigenous Trauma Therapist & Artist

I see God in everything. In the sunlight, the trees that are there, the water, the air, the universe. You know, we respect that, we know that's God's work.

Fredrick Johnson, ICAD Counselor, Esk'etemc First Nation

Our therapy is being along the rivers, working on our salmon, hunting the foods, going for the berries and the medicines, enjoying that land that is there for us. That is the therapy that is needed.

Chief Na'Moks, Hereditary Chief of the Tsayu Clan, Wet'suwet'en Territory

They failed to take my language away. My language is my wisdom.

Dave Belleau, ICAD Counselor, Esk'etemc First Nation

It will change when you say, “I am going to love myself and everyone I come across.”

Roy Henry Vickers, Indigenous Elder, Artist & Hereditary Chief of the House of Walkus, Wuikinuxv

We are just shapes of this exact land right here. It's sacred in every respect. So when it comes to healing all that trauma, I firmly believe we have all those tools already. Those tools are in the culture, they're in the language, they're on the land.

Kolin Sutherland-Wilson, Elected Chief of the Kispiox Band, Gitxsan Nation

BROUGHT TO YOU BY

SAND is a nonprofit organization under section 501.c.3 of the US tax code. Its headquarters are on the unceded ancestral territories of Coastal Miwok and Southern Pomo Land in Sebastopol, CA. We thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.

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