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.
Indigenous
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.