Eternal Song: Screening and Sensing Together

Location: 14th floor at 10C - 10 Carden St., in downtown Guelph, on the 4th floor. Elevator accessible. Snacks and refreshments provided.

We’ll begin by watching Eternal Song, a feature-length documentary rooted in ancestral remembering and planetary grief. Afterwards, you’re invited to stay for some lightly held circle time—a space for witnessing, resonance, and shared breath.

About the film

The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and their Indigenous cultures. Voices from around the world and across generations call us to witness the deep, ongoing scars of colonization on lands and peoples, and the healing that comes through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine stories, we grapple with colonial legacies, intergenerational trauma, our own fragmentation and culture of separation.

The film reveals how modernity severs our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm, while feeding us empty promises of salvation, unlimited consumption and economic growth, and individual happiness. As we are drawn into the intricate web of kinship and honoring the living presence of Mother Earth, we awaken a remembrance. A sacred dance comes to life and we begin to hear the eternal song of Life itself, calling us back to belonging.

Genre: Documentary; Released: 2025

Runtime: 1h 32m + intentional and lightly facilitated time in community to follow

Director: Zaya Ralitza Benazzo, Maurizio Benazzo

Producer: Zaya Ralitza Benazzo, Maurizio Benazzo, Finley Macneil, Alexis Aurigemma

Executive Producer: Pat McCabe, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Bayo Akomolafe, Aviaja Sanimuinaq

Generously Sponsored by: OPIRG Guelph