Highlights from Toronto's imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, which runs October 18 to 22, and later online.
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Jules Koostachin and her family confront intergenerational trauma with an eye towards breaking the cycle of violence in WaaPaKe (Tomorrow).
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Šaamšiǩ - Great Grandmother’s Hat, First Time Home, and This Is Not a Ceremony are among the documentary winners at imagineNATIVE.
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Surveying the state of Indigenous film production in Canadian with voices from the field.
Keep ReadingShadow of Dumont (Canada, 88 min.) Dir. Trevor Cameron The challenge of connecting personal history and collective history can be tricky. Director Trevor Cameron offers a feature documentary about his great-great uncle, Gabriel
Keep ReadingOne Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (Canada, 113 min.) Dir. Zacharias Kunuk One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk is a comedy of manners that is no laughing matter. The
Keep ReadingBowhead Whale Hunting with My Ancestors (Canada, 40 min.) Dir. Zacharias Kunuk, Carol Kunnuk Zacharias Kunuk took audiences on a riveting hunt in the Arctic with 2001’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.
Keep ReadingHoly Angels (Canada, 14 min.) Dir. Jay Cardinal Villeneuve Number 34. That is the name that Lena Wandering Spirit recalls receiving upon arriving at Holy Angels Residential School. Not an Anglicized
Keep ReadingIndigenous people get the last laugh in Colonization Road as Anishinaabe comedian and activist Ryan McMahon takes to the streets.
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