This year’s SIFF coverage concludes with films about reconnection to land and culture, whether actualized or yearned for, and coming-of-age, all while set in this beautiful, wonderful state of Washington.

“West Shore”

“Those canoes are meant to bring our people together.”

Directed by Jordan Riber and Jon Carroll, “West Shore” is an 18-minute Children of the Setting Sun-produced documentary that follows the West Shore Canoe Family as they made their way from Lummi Nation in Whatcom County to Alki Beach for the 2023 Paddle to Muckleshoot.

Different tribes throughout Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California have been paddling traditional canoes through ancestral waters to gather and reunite since the first Paddle to Seattle Canoe journey in 1989.

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