Sugarcane
2024, NR, 107 min.
Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie.
Winner of the Directing Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, this documentary explores a community’s trauma after a mass unmarked gravesite is uncovered at the site of a Catholic church-run “Indian residential school” in British Columbia.
This article appears in April 26 • 2024.
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