MAIFF 2026  -

Walk-in-the-Forest

June 13

6:00 PM

Cinéma Moderne

Animation

3

minutes

Content Warning:

About the Film

Director

Diane Obomsawin

Country

Canada

Year

2009

Program

Closing Ceremony

Curated by

MAiFF Programming Team

Description

Synopsis | This whimsical animation, reminiscent of NFB classics, follows a medicine man called Walk-in-the-forest on a walk in the woods that leads to the discovery of an intriguing secret world.

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About the Director
Diane Obomsawin
Director
A graphic artist and animator of Abenaki descent, Diane Obomsawin brings wry humour and engaging visual economy to short films like Here and There and Vistas: Walk-in-the-Forest, one in a series of shorts by Indigenous filmmakers on the subject of nationhood. I Like Girls, the film adaptation of her graphic novel about sexual identity, has screened at more than 40 international festivals, winning top honours at the 2016 Ottawa International Animation Festival. Diane Obomsawin publishes graphic novels under the pseudonym Obom with Drawn & Quarterly, which TIME calls “the most elegant comics publisher in North America.”
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Awards & Festival Recognition

Langley City Film Festival 2025, Festival du nouveau cinéma 2025, Preceded a special presentation of Écothérapie, Festival Punto de Vista 2023, re:assemblage collective/DIFFUSION 4 Kids 2025, Canadian Film Day

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