Oceanbone

Directed by Lani Cupchoy

Cast: Tarisi Vunidilo, Kali Vunidilo, Joey Quenga, Barbara Makuati-Afitu, Lani Cupchoy

Shorts Competition, Women in Film
United States
Activism, Cultural, documentary, Educational, Experimental, historical, Human Rights, Indigenous, Social justice
English
2025
9 mins

Stolen ancestors lie in museum vaults, waiting to return home. Oceanbone is a poetic reckoning with history, confronting the colonial theft of Indigenous remains and the urgent fight to bring them back.

Plays in

Documentary Shorts 2 -Bodies, Work, Becoming

Documentary Shorts 2 is a celebration of resilience, creativity, and the ways people reclaim power, through art, movement,…

Dates & Times

Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium

November 8, 2025
2:45 pm