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‘Sugarcane’ Review: A Documentary That Tackles Cultural Erasure, And Community-Centered Reconciliation – Sundance Film Festival
Filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie deliver a multilayered film that invites audiences to confront questions about morality and justice, and to bear witness to the lasting intergenera…
Drawing on their backgrounds in activism and journalism — as well as NoiseCat’s own personal connection to the story and community — the filmmakers deftly weave together multiple strands to form this compelling, heartbreaking narrative. With his father attending such the school firsthand, NoiseCat lends an intimate lens to the lingering collective harms inflicted through forced family separation and rampant physical and sexual abuse against children. NoisecCat and Kassie’s form of visual storytelling convey deep solidarity with Williams Lake First Nation that continues to bear scars from schools designed to eradicate their cultures.
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