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APTN + NFB present
In collaboration with Sioux Lookout Public Library
and Nishnawbe Gamik Friendhsip Center
Two FREE screening events and post-screening conversations with
the legendary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin
Sunday, April 22, 1:00 p.m.
Sioux Lookout Public Library
21 5th Ave, Sioux Lookout, ON
Family Shorts Program featuring: How the Fiddle Flows Dancers of the Grass Christmas at Moose Factory
Sunday, April 22, 7:00 p.m.
Nishnawbe Gamik Friendship Center
52 King St, Sioux Lookout, ON
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
On a hot July day in 1990, an historic confrontation propelled Indigenous issues
in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Québec, into the international spotlight and
into the Canadian conscience. Director Alanis Obomsawin endured 78
nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks,
the Québec police and the Canadian army. A powerful feature-documentary
emerges that takes you right into the action of an age-old Indigenous struggle.
The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades, providing insight into
the Mohawks' unyielding determination to protect their land. |
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