Please join us for the American premiere of A Sacred Place (2026), a new film by Professor Dolly Kikon (Anthropology). The film tells the story of stones, spirits, and salt springs in Makhel. The film focuses on intergenerational storytellers and their relationship with the land. It integrates visual ethnography, oral tradition, and geological features of Makhel to center Indigenous pedagogy, community history, and ecology. After the screening, Professor Clementine Bordeaux (HAVC) will provide comments and facilitate a conversation with Kikon and audience member participants.

Please find a trailer for A Sacred Place here.

This screening is a hybrid event. We welcome you to join us in-person in Studio C/Room 150, Communications Building at UCSC or on Zoom. Remote participants will receive a link to the film before the event to watch on their own.

This event is graciously co-sponsored by UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions, Center for South Asian Studies, Indigenous Faculty Network, the Film and Digital Media Department, and The Humanities Institute.