Frybread Face and Me follows two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds as they learn more about their family’s past and about themselves during a summer on their grandmother’s Arizona ranch. (Director: Billy Luther (Navajo/Hopi/Laguna Pueblo), USA, 2023, 83 min., English)

This film is rated TV-MA for mature audiences. It contains coarse language.

Director Billy Luther will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

Screening presented in conjunction with The Americas Film Festival Closing Night.

The Americas Film Festival New York (TAFFNY) is a film festival that showcases premieres, award-winning films, and classic works about the cultures and peoples of the Americas. The festival is a project of the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education of City College of New York (The City University of New York-CUNY), in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute of NY and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Screening presented in conjunction with the closing night of The Americas Film Festival New York.

This screening is presented as part of the museum's Native Cinema Showcase, a celebration of the best in Indigenous film from communities throughout the Western Hemisphere and Arctic.

This program is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 

Image Credit: Cybelle Codish