Tuesday, September 30, 2025 is Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Honour the experiences of residential school survivors at U of T hosted screenings.
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SugarcaneMonday, September 29, 5pm, Innis Town Hall Register for this free screening. Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary, and has since garnered over a dozen awards. A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life – Sugarcane, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie – is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. Set amidst a ground-breaking investigation into abuse and death at an Indian residential school, the film empowers participants to break cycles of intergenerational trauma by bearing witness to painful, long-ignored truths – and the love that endures within their families despite the revelation of genocide. |
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AberdeenTuesday, September 30, 7pm, Innis Town Hall Register for this free screening. In recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Innis College and the Cinema Studies Institute present a special screening of Aberdeen. Actor Billy Merasty will join for a post-screening Q&A. Aberdeen is a raw, authentic feature drama interwoven with pockets of humor that shines a light on the indomitable Aberdeen; a middle-aged Indigenous climate change refugee who has been forced from her home due to flooding. As Aberdeen begrudgingly adjusts to big-city life, she must face the inter-generational cycle of trauma that has been tearing her family apart for 5 generations in order to protect her grandchildren. |
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The Journals of Knud RasmussenTuesday, September 30, 7pm, Wycliffe College Reading Room, 5 Hoskin Avenue Set primarily in and around Igloolik in 1922, the film depicts the encounter between a group of Inuit in Arctic Canada led by one of the last shamans of the Canadian Inuit, Aua, and three Danish ethnographers and explorers, Knud Rasmussen, Therkel Mathiassen and Peter Freuchen during the latter's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. The shaman and his entourage must ultimately decide whether to join the ranks of another group of Inuit who have converted to Christianity. |