Movie Premiere: SUGARCANE

SUGARCANE: Uncovering a Dark Legacy of Cultural Erasure and Abuse At a Catholic Boarding School for Indigenous Children

Documentary Has US Theatrical Premiere Friday, August 9 at Film Forum

Film Forum is pleased to present the US theatrical premiere of Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s Sugarcane, opening on Friday, August 9th.

In 2021, unmarked graves were discovered around Canadian church-run boarding schools, belatedly exposing the hundred-year efforts to strip First Nations children of their culture and identity: Indigenous languages were banned, children were separated from their families and abused, and some disappeared. Sugarcane begins with a First Nation investigation at St. Joseph’s Mission school near the Sugarcane Reservation in British Columbia.

With tremendous empathy, co-directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie (winners of the Sundance Directing award) document the lucid, intimate memories of survivors of the school — including a leading advocate/investigator; a former tribal chief who is still a practicing Catholic; and NoiseCat’s own father and grandmother, whose tragic story went unspoken for years.

For more, watch the trailer here and visit the Film Forum website.

Originally published at http://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on July 10, 2024.