Interviews

International First Peoples’ Festival 2024: let’s chat about the programming

Interview by Frédéric Cardin
Genres and styles : Indigenous peoples

Additional Information

The First Peoples’ Festival (FIPA) presents its 34th edition from August 6 to 15, 2024 in Montreal. A plethora of films, documentaries and fiction (a record in the latter case), musical shows, exhibitions, workshops and a whole host of things that reconnect us in some small way with our civilizational roots, all, in one way or another, imbued with the soul of various first peoples, all over the world. We talk to André Dudemaine, Artistic Director of First Peoples’ Festival.

DETAILS, PROGRAM AND TICKETS FOR MONTREAL’S INTERNATIONAL FIRST PEOPLES FESTIVAL

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