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***Dirigo Docs: Local Shorts Program***

Weds, Nov 18 at 7pm @ SPACE 538

Q&A to follow with local filmmakers 

Maine is a living, breathing landscape shaped by the storytellers who tend to its memories. Across this year’s selection of locally made short films, stewardship comes alive as a daily practice. From tending to a wooden boat and caring for farm animals to forging Muslim foodways and preserving Passamaquoddy traditions, these stories explore what it means to inherit and sustain this place—and its histories—with intention. 


**Steward Ship
dir. Luke Kaneb • 8 min.**

A young man new to the water tends a wooden boat through every Maine season, learning from an old boatbuilder how a coast is kept.

**Sweetgrass
dir. Mike Sockabasin, Emily Karlik • 14 min.**

Guided by a tribal historian, a Passamaquoddy elder honors her mother as she introduces the cultural practice of picking sweetgrass to her granddaughter.

**Oxbow
dir. Greg Kohs • 23 mins.**

From Maine’s quiet trout streams to Tokyo’s neon currents, brewer Tim Adams traces the oxbows of his journey, where life’s longest detours become beautiful confluences.

**For a Moment the Clouds Parted and I Felt the Sun
dir. Jared Lank • 8 min.**

A visceral and intimate reflection on a Mi’kmaq family’s multigenerational experience of assimilation, told through a collage of archival footage and sonic exploration.

**Fish Film
dir. Emma Baiada • 10 min.**

Fish Film dives into the impact of salmon aquaculture on Downeast Maine’s wild fish, and is a clarion call to help restore Maine’s local watersheds.

**Claws for Concern
dir. Julia Forsyth • 10 min.**

As an invasive species threatens Maine’s iconic ecosystems, a waterman, a chef, a science educator—and plenty of advertisers—share their plans to fight back.

**May the Water Not Freeze
dir. Zahira Chaudhry • 16 min.**

A farming cooperative in Western Maine prepares for their first winter while stewarding community with other Black farmers & cultivating Muslim foodways.

**Children & Animals
dir. Walker Kalan • 12 min.**

A 12-year old farmer brings his favorite goat to compete at a country fair in Maine – and experiences an existential awakening.




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