CAST OF SHADOWS

Available: 11/16/25 12:00 AM - 11/30/25 11:59 PM

 

Showings

Village East by Angelika Sat, Nov 15 9:00 PM
Film Details
Year:2025
Running Time:121
Language:English
Trailer URL (YouTube or Vimeo):https://vimeo.com/1109270742
Director:Sami van Ingen
Executive Producer:Johanna Lecklin
Producer:Sami van Ingen
Editor:Sami van Ingen
Cinematographer:Sami van Ingen
Composer:Sami van Ingen
Cast:Frances Flaherty
Monica Flaherty
Sami van Ingen
Accessibility:Sound-Amplification Headphones upon request
DOC NYC
Event Years:2025
Festival Section:PORTRAITS
Film Genres:US Premiere
Adventure
Archival
Celebrity
Essay Film
Family
Films on Film/Filmmaking
History
Indigenous/Native Americans/First Peoples

Description

US PREMIERE Director Sami Van Ingen revisits the making of his great-grandfather Robert Flaherty’s famed films, showcasing the overlooked creative force of Frances Flaherty, whose vision and labor underpinned her husband’s works. Through letters, documents, and dual narration, the film reveals the family’s complex emotional dynamics and the hidden histories behind the romanticized colonial fantasies they created together. A film that reconsiders how cinema’s origins were shaped by both erasure and unsung female authorship. - Ruth Somalo

The first and second screenings will be followed by a Q&A with director Sami van Ingen.

All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible devices.