Awardee Events

Adam Khalil: Aanikoobijigan

Sunday, May 3, 2026, 4:15 PM ET

2026 Prismatic Ground Film Festival
Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY

Prismatic Ground is an annual festival in New York City centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film. The festival’s Year Six Program presents Adam Khalil‘s (2021 Awardee) Aanikoobijigan.

Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, 2026, 80min

Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place. —The Film Collaborative

Adam Khalil

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Anishinabe man with shoulder length black hair with a purple baseball cap on, smiling in the woods. Adam Khalil, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is a filmmaker and artist whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor, relation, and transgression.

Anishinabe man with shoulder length black hair with a purple baseball cap on, smiling in the woods.