Image: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
'Aanikoobijigan' will have its Ohio premiere at the Film/Video Theater on October 24, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. The film is in English and Anishinaabemowin with English subtitles.
Adam and Zach Khalil’s film follows the emotional and vital work of a Michigan Indigenous alliance made up of repatriation specialists representing all Michigan tribes; these specialists fight to bring their ancestors’ remains and funerary objects home from settler colonial institutions such as museums, libraries, and archives.
The film follows the pressing struggle to rebury Indigenous human remains that have been held in sterile storage, laying bare both the history of Indigenous collections and the battle to recognize and enforce the laws intended to facilitate their repatriation to the communities from which the remains were originally stolen.
Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil are Ojibway filmmakers and artists from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, currently based in Brooklyn, New York; their work subverts traditional forms of ethnography through humor, transgression, and innovative documentary practice.
