Sugarcane

Sugarcane, an Oscar-nominated documentary, is “an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning” with the destructive policies and practices of assimilation. Sugarcane illuminates the heartbreak and beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding strength to survive. The Indigenous ways of knowing and living portrayed are a beautiful, resilient, and love-filled way of life, persisting despite the injustices of colonialism spanning generations. Sugarcane conveys how the past lives on in the present for the survivors of residential schools and their descendants yet provides hope for the future. Sugarcane is a story of harm, healing, and a journey towards the regaining of personal and collective freedom. Named after the Sugarcane Reserve in British Columbia, and engaging with the history of the nearby Mission school, the realities revealed are not uncommon to the experience of Indigenous Peoples elsewhere in North America. (https://sugarcanefilm.com/)