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Minneapolis, Minnesota - Sunday, April 14, 7:15 p.m., Bell Auditorium East Bank campus. Bell Museum is located at the intersection of University Avenue and 17th Ave SE, University of Minnesota Campus, Minneapolis, MN.

This land is your land, this land was their land! One hundred years after the massacre at Wounded Knee, the painful legacy of the Indian Wars still reverberates through the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where, in this story of two brothers, the Oglala Sioux attempt to preserve their dignity while living on welfare checks and surplus commodity food. Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig - The Last of the Mohicans), a criminal investigator, finds himself taking the law into his own hands, to retaliate against a multi-million dollar liquor business, which he blames for Reservation alcohol abuse that also besets his brother (the powerful actor Graham Greene). Director Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals) attempts to bring a fresh perspective and authentic Indian voice into mainstream Hollywood films. (84 min.)

Opening night tickets and passes are available during shows at all participating theatre box offices and at Ruminator Books and Dinkytown News. Single tickets only (not opening night) are available online, visit Ticket Web: Minneapolis/St. Paul Int'l Film Festival: Skins. Prices are $8 general, $7 students/seniors, $6 University Film Society and Walker members (except special priced opening night, closing night, and special event screenings). Group rates available.

For full festival schedule, see City Pages pullout section April 3, or watch for the festival website. Festival schedules are always subject to change.

For more information, call the hotline, phone: 612-627-4430.