Directed by Tracey Deer | Canada | 92 mins

Part of our Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium series, presented in collaboration with the University of Calgary's Department of Communication, Media and Film. 

In 1990, violence broke out between the Kanien’kehà:ka people and the town of Oka over a land dispute. Filmmaker Tracey Deer, who hails from Kahnawà:ke and lived through the crisis in her youth, tells the story through the eyes of "Beans", a preteen girl living in Kahnawà:ke who is swept up in the events around her.

While depicting harrowing and at times frightening true life events, it was important to Deer not to produce a film that would be retraumatizing to Indigenous audiences. The issues raised in the film are ones that Canadians still deal with today, as confrontations between Indigenous people and settler governments continue to break out, highlighting the scars of our nation.

 Rating: PG, contains coarse language.

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In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge that this screening takes place on Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory, as well as the oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we acknowledge all Nations, Indigenous and non, who live, work and play, as well as help steward this land, honour and celebrate this territory.