THU, MAY 15 / 9:15 pm
FRI, MAY 16 / 7 pm
SAT, MAY 17 / 9:15 pm
SUN, MAY 18 / 2 pm
THU, MAY 22 / 9:15 pm
Directed by Jeff Barnaby
2013, Canada, 82 min
English and Mi’gMaq w/English subtitles
Jeff Barnaby’s powerful feature debut set on the Red Crow Reserve in the mid 1970s is the story of a 15-year-old girl, Alia, whose family has been tormented by Indian agents for years and sets about getting revenge. One of Canada’s Top Ten from 2013 and a landmark film in the new wave of Canadian indigenous filmmaking.
Reviews
It’s a tough, gritty piece of work, long on the violence but invested with the poetic sensibility you find in a Cormac McCarthy novel or Tom Waits song… [It] marks the arrival of a genuine cinematic intelligence, one sensitive to life’s more intimate, tender, even spiritual moments yet not averse to slamming the sledgehammer as circumstances require. — GLOBE AND MAIL
