Cette œuvre de Pierre Perrault, réalisée en collaboration avec René Bonnière, relate la vie des communautés innues d’Unamenshipu (La Romaine) et de Pakuashipi pendant l’été. Filmé par le directeur photo de renom Michel Thomas-d’Hoste, le documentaire rend compte des activités pratiquées, notamment la construction d’un canot traditionnel, la pêche sur la rivière Coucouchou, une procession marquant la fête chrétienne de l’Assomption, ainsi que le départ des enfants vers les pensionnats indiens, un événement présenté ici sans aucun jugement. Livré par une voix masculine anonyme, le commentaire de Perrault met en relief le regard que pose sur ses sujets autochtones une personne de l’extérieur. Le film fait partie de la série Au Pays de Neufve-France, produite par Crawley Films, l’un des premiers grands producteurs canadiens de documentaires.
« De 1960 à 1985, Alexis Joveneau, un missionnaire catholique belge de la congrégation cléricale des Oblats de Marie-Immaculée qui fut le curé des Montagnais de La Romaine (Innus d’Ulamen-Shipit) de 1953 à 1992, a participé à cinq films de l’ONF : Attiuk (1960), Ka Ke Ki Ku (1960), Le goût de la farine (1977), Le pays de la terre sans arbre ou le Mouchouânipi (1980) et La grande allure II (1985).
Depuis novembre 2017, des allégations d’agressions ont été portées contre M. Joveneau par des membres de la communauté de La Romaine pendant les audiences de l’Enquête nationale sur les femmes et les filles autochtones disparues et assassinées. Des enquêtes et articles journalistiques récents ont rapporté d’autres allégations d’agressions sexuelles, d’abus physiques, psychologiques ou financiers ayant fait des dizaines de victimes. Le 29 mars 2018, une demande d'action collective a été déposée contre les Oblats de Marie-Immaculée en Cour Supérieure (du Québec). Le 16 novembre 2021, l’action collective a été autorisée. Les Oblats visés par ces allégations sont entre autres Alexis Joveneau, Omer Provencher, Edmond Brouillard, Raynald Couture et Édouard Meilleur. »
This short documentary follows Gabe Etchinelle as builds a mooseskin boat as a tribute to an earlier way of life, where the Shotah Dene people would use a mooseskin boats and transport their families and cargo down mountain rivers to trading settlements throughout the Northwest Territories.
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A visit to the "Indians of Canada" pavilion at Expo 67, Montréal. Inside there are Indigenous artifacts, but even more arresting are the printed placards that tell the story of the Indigenous peoples in North America, written without rancor but recalling what their contact with European settlers has cost in freedom of movement, in loss of land, and in loss of health of body and spirit.
This introspective short animation takes place In the village of Carcross, in the Tagish First Nation. Neighbourhood pillar Grandma Kay tell the local children the tale of how Crow brought fire to people. As the story unfolds, we also meet 12-year-old Tish, an introspective, talented girl who feels drawn to the elder. Here, past and present blend, myth and reality meet, and the metaphor of fire infuses all in a location that lies at the heart of this Native community’s spiritual and cultural memory.
This animated short tells the story of Maq, a Mi'kmaq boy who realizes his potential with the help of inconspicuous mentors. When an elder in the community offers him a small piece of pipestone, Maq carves a little person out of it. Proud of his work, the boy wants to impress his grandfather and journeys through the woods to find him. Along the path Maq meets a curious traveller named Mi'gmwesu. Together they share stories, medicine, laughter, and song. Maq begins to care less about making a good impression and more about sharing the knowledge and spirit he's found through his creation. Part of the Talespinners collection, which uses vibrant animation to bring popular children's stories from a wide range of cultural communities to the screen.
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The building of a goélette, the wooden coastal freighter of the St. Lawrence River. Although ships of steel may replace these sturdy wooden vessels, the Jean Richard, shown in construction in this film, is still one ship built with all the old pride in craftsmanship.
In a valley on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence, the seasons unfold with their chores and pleasures: children gathering roses for honey, an old uncle's wine, pressing apple cider, three brothers shelling broads beans, their flails beating time, grandmother's spinning wheel, the old stone mill, the rushing rivulets of spring, a silvery catch of capelin washed up on shore by the May Moon.
In this short film, filmmaker Jobie Weetaluktuk mixes archival and new footage to make a statement about the appropriation of Inuit culture throughout history.
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This full-length documentary examines the work of Krzysztof Wodiczko, an artist who has taken his art out of museums to project it onto the sides of buildings. The film explores Wodiczko’s philosophy of art as social contract and shows examples of his provocative work, which has lit up walls from London's Trafalgar Square to Zion Square in Jerusalem.
Ages 16 to 17
Diversity - Identity
Ethics and Religious Culture - Religious Diversity/Heritage
Indigenous Studies - Identity/Society