ON DEMAND November 9 - 30

What do you hold to be sacred?

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PITUAMKEK: A MI'KMAQ HERITAGE LANDSCAPE
John Hopkins
CANADA | 2021 | 18.5 min | Ontario Premiere

Located in northwestern Prince Edward Island (Epekwitk), in close proximity to the Lennox Island First Nation, there is a chain of islands known in the Mi’kmaq language as Pituamkek (Bee-doo-um-gek), which means ‘At the Long Sand Dune’, and in English as Hog Island and the Sandhills. Pituamkek has helped sustain the Mi’kmaq people on Epekwik for thousands of years. This film celebrates the lands of Pituamkek: its nature and its Mi’kmaw traditions, and profiles work underway to create an Indigenous Protected Area and National Park Reserve there.

BLOOD AND WATER: A RECLAMATION STORY
Layla Black
CANADA | 2020 | 23 min | Toronto Premiere

This short film shares the story of Layla Black on her path to reclaim her Mohawk identity. As a generational survivor of residential schools, they took her culture from her, but watch her story as she takes it back. And it all started with the water.

SEAWOLF
Alexander Sworik
CANADA | 2021 | 9 min | Toronto Premiere

SEAWOLF explores the perspectives of Mike Willie and K̕odi Nelson, two First Nations men looking to conserve their land, protect their culture, bring prosperity to their people, and find harmony and reconciliation between First Nations People and the Canadian government once and for all.

HA NII TOKXW: OUR FOOD TABLE
Farhan Umedaly
CANADA | 2021 | 39.5 min | World Premiere

The story of the Indigenous Gitanyow (“Git-nee-ow”) people and their struggle to protect their traditional lands and "food table" in the face of climate change, industrialization and colonization in Northern British Columbia.

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