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Indigenous

Amanda Kernell, Sami Blood

Alex Heeney / May 31, 2017

Writer-director Amanda Kernell talks Sami Blood

Amanda Kernell discusses her exquisite feature debut, “a coming-of-age story, with joik and blood, about a girl with a knife,” and how it illuminates South Sami history.

Female directors TIFF, Sami Blood

Alex Heeney / May 31, 2017

Review: In Sami Blood, an Indigenous Swedish girl is caught between two worlds

Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood is an astonishingly accomplished and movie feature debut, which follows an Indigenous Swedish girl caught between two worlds. Read our interview with writer-director Amanda Kernell. Read our review of Kernell’s second feature, Charter.

Road Forward, Marie Clements

Laura Anne Harris / May 11, 2017

HotDocs Interview: Marie Clements chronicles Canada’s Indigenous Civil Rights Movement in musical doc The Road Forward

Métis/Dene filmmaker and playwright Marie Clements discusses her musical documentary, The Road Forward, which chronicles Canada’s Indigenous Civil Rights Movement.

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Angry Inuk

Alex Heeney / January 12, 2017

Inuk director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril talks Angry Inuk, seal hunting

Inuk filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril discusses seal hunting and the making of Angry Inuk, which is one of Canada’s Top Ten Films of 2016.

Terril Calder, SNIP

Alex Heeney / September 2, 2016

Métis director Terril Calder discusses her TIFF16 short SNIP

Métis filmmaker Terril Calder’s SNIP reckons with Canada’s past violence toward indigenous people through the residential school system.

Before the Streets, Leriche, Avant Les Rues

Elena Lazic / February 24, 2016

Interview: Chloé Leriche on Before the Streets and indigenous cinema

Canadian director Chloé Leriche discusses bringing the Atikamekw language and community to the big screen for the first time at this year’s Berlinale.

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