The acclaimed new documentary “Free Leonard Peltier” will open the 44th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, which runs April 2 through 13. Screenings are $17, or $11 for MSP Film Society members. Six-packs of tickets are $85 and $55, while all-access passes are $800 and $550. For more details and the full lineup, see mspiff.org.

Directors David France and Jesse Short Bull describe the Indigenous activist's ongoing fight for Native American rights after his release from prison.

After nearly 50 years of arbitrary detention, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was finally able to return home on February 18. He received a

Peltier maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents in 1975. He says he will spend the rest of his life fighting for Native American rights.

Peltier, 80, grew emotional as he addressed about 500 people who gathered at a festive event to welcome him home to North Dakota, Wednesday, Feb. 19, on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians' reservation.

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We’ve highlighted 11 events that might also whet your appetite to check out the festival’s program to see what other films you might want to catch.

The Turtle Mountain activist talks with a Cherokee journalist at The Associated Press in his first sit-down interview