Feature film: Café daughter (2023)
Duration: 97 minutes
Director: Shelley Niro (Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk)

Café Daughter is the story of Yvette Wong, a nine-year-old girl of Cree and Chinese-Canadian ancestry struggling to find her place in a small Saskatchewan community in the 1960s.

Her mother, a residential school survivor, taught her children not to reveal that they were Indigenous, so Yvette initially explores her heritage in secret.

Café Daughter is inspired by the life of retired senator Lillian Dyck and based on Kenneth T. Williams’ play of the same name.

“A spirited coming-of-age story … with an excellent cast” (Hollywood North Magazine)

Feature film: Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes
Director: Jeff Barnaby (Mi’qmaw)

This visceral film is set on the fictional Red Crow Mi’gMaq reserve during the mid-‘70s, a time when Indigenous children under the age of 16 were forcibly removed to residential schools. Thus far, 15-year-old Aila has avoided the virtual prison that is St. Dymphna’s.

As the local “weed princess,” Aila has peddled enough drugs to pay a regular truancy tax to Popper, a sadistic Indian agent. But when Aila’s drug money is stolen, life as she has come to know it takes a turn.

Content warning: This film is rated “R” because it contains scenes of drug use, sexual assault and violence. 18+.

“There is sardonic humour and grit in the storytelling topped by a wicked soundtrack.” (Richard Crouse)

Feature film: Re-ken-si-le-a-shen (2023)
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes
Director: Jamie Bourque-Blyan (Métis)

Re-ken-si-le-a-shen is a feature-length documentary in which two-spirit Métis filmmaker Jamie Bourque-Blyan unearths painful truths about his own family’s past and connects with fellow survivors of conquest and colonization.

The film explores how other countries, including South Africa, Croatia, and New Zealand, have engaged in the process of truth and reconciliation post-atrocity, and how alternative approaches to healing through collective memory might be tried in Canada.

“A round-the-world road movie” (We-do-change.org)