Streaming Online: "In My Blood It Runs"

The Comparative and International Educational Society (CIES) presents the 2023 Cinematic Spaces of Education Film Festivalette. High-quality independent films from around the world that push the boundaries on questions and issues important to the field of education are streaming online during October and November and are free to access.

"In My Blood It Runs," streaming until the end of October, is a 2019 documentary from Australia, directed by Maya Newell with cast members as collaborating directors. In English, Aboriginal English, and Arrernte with English Subtitles, this beautiful, moving vérité style documentary brings viewers intimately into the fundamental questions of colonialism and its manifestations in modern Western education systems today.

The film tells the story of a ten-year-old Arrernte Aboriginal boy in Alice Springs, Australia, separated from his homeland bush, who has inherited the power to heal in his Arrernte culture. His family wants him to “learn both ways” (the Aboriginal and the Western), but his formal schooling and sociocultural context deeply clash with the Aboriginal teachings that his family instills in him.

Find out more about this film and others in the series.

Watch "In My Blood It Runs"

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For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Location: Online Event