SUGARCANE
2024 (Canada, USA ) 107 minutes
Directed by: Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat
Essential viewing. This gripping investigation, beginning in 2021, of unmarked graves at the notorious and now closed St. Joseph’s Mission residential school unearths secrets below and above ground, igniting a reckoning in the lives of survivors and their descendants on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve, including the film’s co-director, first-time feature filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat (Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and a descendant of the Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie), whose father is a survivor of the school. SUGARCANE reminds us that Indigenous history is essential in understanding the complete landscape of historical truths across Turtle Island, also known as North America.
2024 Sundance Film Festival - Won - Directing Award US Documentary
2024 Seattle International Film Festival - Won - Grand Jury Prize
2024 San Francisco International Film Festival - Won - Golden Gate Award
2024 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival - Won - Best Documentary
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