Centre Film Festival Presents
Free Leonard Peltier + Five Seasons of My Childhood
The festival launches with Free Leonard Peltier, directed by Academy Award–nominated filmmaker David France (How to Survive a Plague, Welcome to Chechnya) and Oglala Lakota filmmaker Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs. United States). Paired with the opening feature is the poetic short film from Kosovo, Five Seasons of My Childhood, directed by Besim Ugzmajli.
A post-screening discussion will follow with co-director of Free Leonard Peltier Jesse Short Bull and representatives from our local Prison Journalism Project. This screening is part of the Native American Heritage Month series at the festival.
Feature:
Free Leonard Peltier (2025; USA; 103m)
Directed by David France and Jesse Short Bull
Leonard Peltier, one of the surviving leaders of the American Indian Movement, has been in prison for 50 years following a contentious conviction. A new generation of Native activists is committed to winning his freedom before he dies.
Short:
5 Seasons of my Childhood (2025; Albania, 15m)
Directed by Besim Ugzmajli
A journey through childhood memories brings nostalgia full of pain and love. Nothing is as it was in childhood; only memories roam freely and illuminate in retrospect. The environment and everything of that time has been violently ruined and altered by someone. Seasons have settled in the ruins of troubled memories.
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