Join Sila Film Premiere + Live Online Event
with Inuit Healers & Activists
Join Sila Film Premiere + Live Online Event
with Inuit Healers & Activists
Watch the film for a donation of any amount, or upgrade to unlock the full 13-film collection and talk series.
Your contribution will support Indigenous projects and grant you access to a live online gathering July 28–29 with the Indigenous community leaders featured in the film.
Subtitles available: English, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian.
- Watch Sila for 48-Hour Access
- Live Online Event with Inuit Healers
& Activists July 28–29 - Receive a downloadable workbook for The Eternal Song Series
- Access a SILA learning & resource document
- Support the Indigenous communities featured in the film
Suggested donation $12
no one will be turned away for lack of funds
- Unlimited streaming of all 13 films in The Eternal Song collection
- Recorded sessions from Sila Premiere Event
- 70+ recorded sessions from all our live gatherings with Elders and knowledge keepers
- Audio files & full transcripts of each session
- Extended interviews & behind-the-scenes conversations
- Original soundtrack of The Eternal Song
- Two-year access to your private library
- Community gatherings to stay connected
- Discussion groups to share reflections, questions, and resources
About the film
In Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), the word Sila holds everything at once: the weather, the breath, the consciousness connecting all living things. This tender, nonlinear documentary follows Inuit women moving through three hundred years of Danish colonialism, including a medical program that inserted contraceptive devices into girls as young as thirteen without their consent. Their bodies became a site of colonial administration.
Yet the film journeys into ceremony, into the shaman’s call home, the heartbeat of the drum, the needle-drawn return of ancestral markings erased by missionaries. Sila holds grief and remembering in the same breath, a remembering that travels through the long line of mothers, all the way back to the first conscious human being. Still there. Still listening.
The film journeys into ceremony — the shaman’s call home, the heartbeat of the drum, the slow needle-drawn return of ancestral body markings erased within a century of missionary arrival. Visually luminous and spiritually attuned, Sila holds grief and remembering in the same breath: a remembering that travels through bone and nerve and the long line of mothers, all the way back to the first conscious human being. Still there. Still listening.
The Guardians
Sila Live Online Event July 28–29
Guest Speakers & Inuit Wisdom Keepers
DAY 1 | JULY 28, 2026
Opening Live 8:00 – 8:10 am PDT
Welcome, Intro & Opening Prayer CircleZaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo
Live 8:10 – 9:10 am PDT
SilaFilm Communal Screening
Live 9:15 – 10:30 am PDT
Following the Calling: Shamanic Lineage, Trauma, and the Soul’s ReturnRakel Aviaja Sanimuinaq
- Breaking generational cycles of trauma, shame, and disconnection
- An invitation to remember and reclaim your own ancestral roots
- Finding healing through community, ceremony, and the land
DAY 2 | JULY 29, 2026
Live 9:00 – 9:30 am PDT
My Body Remembered: Reclaiming Power from Colonial TraumaNaja Lyberth
- Exposing the hidden history and impact of the Greenland Spiral Campaign
- The journey from institutional silence to activism
- Reclaiming bodily autonomy and healing from colonial control
Live 9:35 – 10:35 am PDT
The Breath Behind Everything: Drum Dancing, Sacred Markings, and BelongingIkimaliq Pikilak & Nuka Alice
- The history of Danish colonial rule and cultural suppression in Greenland
- The resilient, modern movement of Inuit cultural renewal
- Honoring ancestral knowledge through drums and traditional tattooing
The Vision
Our vision for the 13-film The Eternal Song 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.
The Eternal Song
13-FILM SERIES
Over the next two years, we will release a total of 13 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 • WATCH NOW
Sila
LAND: KALAALLIT NUNAAT (GREENLAND)
60 MINUTES • WATCH NOW
Kupuna ʻĀina
LAND: MOKUPUNI HAWAI’I
COMING 2026
Flowers of The Earth
LAND: MATO GROSSO DO SUL (BRAZIL)
COMING 2026
Eseuseu
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
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)
Kupuna ʻĀina
LAND: MOKUPUNI HAWAI’I
Flowers of The Earth
LAND: MATO GROSSO DO SUL (BRAZIL)
Eseuseu
LAND: OLOSHO LE MAA (KENYA)
Haida
LAND: HAIDA GWAII (CANADA)
Ifá
LAND: TSENACOMOCO (VIRGINIA)
See other films from SAND:
We thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
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.
When you donate to watch the film, you help support the following project:
Preserving & Sharing Shamanic Wisdom
Filmed in present-day Greenland, Sila follows Inuit communities reclaiming ancestral shamanic traditions as a pathway to healing and cultural connection. Anchored in the story of Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq Kristiansen, an Inuit healer, the film explores how spiritual practice can serve as a doorway to balance and belonging.
As part of SAND’s reciprocity commitment, we are directing $10,000–$15,000 to MiRa House of Healing in Nuuk, Greenland. A sacred space dedicated to preserving and sharing ancestral shamanic wisdom through Rakel’s lineage, MiRa offers soul healing to those navigating trauma, loss, and spiritual crisis.
Designed as an alternative to Western models of care, MiRa supports whole-person healing through Inuit knowledge and cultural wisdom. Reciprocity funds will help sustain this living sanctuary for storytelling, spiritual practice, and human connection.
13 Films & 70+ Talks and Teachings
from the Following Wisdom Keepers & Elders
from the Following Wisdom Keepers & Elders
Access The Eternal Song Collection
Access The Eternal Song Collection
If you would like to support the movie and mission, please donate to watch the film or select the upgrade option.
The Eternal Song Collection gives you access to all 13 films as well as access to the recordings from each supporting talk series.
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.
