This selection of films includes fiction, documentary, and shorts which use different approaches to form a picture of Metis life and culture in Canada. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Places Not Our Own How the Fiddle Flows Women in the Shadows Riel Country Lake
This selection of films includes fiction, documentary, and shorts which use different approaches to form a picture of Metis life and culture in Canada.
Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.
Films in This Playlist Include
Places Not Our Own
How the Fiddle Flows
Women in the Shadows
Riel Country
Lake
Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this dramatic film set in 1929 depicts how Canada's West, home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the railroads and new settlers. As a result, the Métis became a forgotten people, forced to eke out a living as best they could. At the forefront is Rose, a woman determined to provide her children with a normal life and an education despite the odds. But due to their harsh circumstances, a devastating and traumatic event transpires instead.
This documentary from Martin Duckworth features young adults from two distinct Winnipeg neighbourhoods on either side of the Red River who struggle to overcome geographical and cultural barriers. High school students from the predominantly Indigenous North End and their peers from the Francophone district of St. Boniface work together to produce a play on the origins of the Métis.
Their collaboration raises questions about how these youths foresee their role and place within their respective communities and how these minority communities co-exist with the predominant culture. The film also tackles issues of intolerance, racism and discrimination.
Cree director Alexandra Lazarowich riffs off classic verité cinema to craft a contemporary portrait of Métis women net fishing in Northern Alberta.