Opener: Feather Fall (2024) | 23 minutes
Feature: Yintah (2024) | 1 hour 28 minutes
This film contains scenes discussing residential schools, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, suicide, and police violence.
Yintah follows Wet’suwet’en leaders for over a decade as they fight to protect their lands from fossil-fuel companies.
Opener: Wabano: The light of Day (2022) | 31 minutes
Feature: WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) (2023) | 1 hour 21 minutes
Employing a range of innovative cinematic means, WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) asks the difficult question: "Who are we without our pain?" This deeply personal documentary unravels the tangled threads of silence endured by residential school Survivors, exploring themes of truth, freedom, and power.
Opener: Kehkimin: Teach Me (2023) | 7 minutes
Feature: Wilfred Buck (2024) | 1 hour 36 minutes
Moving between earth and stars, past and present, this hybrid documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, a charismatic and irreverent Cree Elder who overcame a harrowing yet familiar history of displacement, racism and addiction by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony.
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Admission is free and everyone is welcome! Light refreshments will be provided, and each evening will open with a short film before the feature. Events will begin at 7:00 p.m., so be sure to come early for a seat and a snack!
