Aboriginal film festival returns with eclectic lineup
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The 17th edition of the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival screens its intensive program over the weekend at the Ellice Theatre (587 Ellice Ave.)
The feature films on this year’s program include:
Urban Eclipse (Saturday, 11:30 a.m.) This documentary examines the twisted history of the Shoal Lake aqueduct, supplying Winnipeg’s water supply for 100 years, even as the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation suffered isolation and neglect prior to the ongoing construction of the 24-kilometre Freedom Road, which connects Shoal Lake to the Trans-Canada Highway.
Trouble in the Garden (Saturday, 3 p.m.) In this dramatic feature, a radical eco-activist is jailed for protesting development on disputed Indigenous land, only to be bailed out by a member of her adoptive family — specifically a brother in the real estate business, pre-selling houses on the land she’s been trying to save.
On the Tip of the Tongue (Saturday, 7 p.m.) This documentary by French director Vincent Bonnay examines the curious story of how the Eyak language of Alaska essentially died in 2008 with the passing of its last native speaker, Marie Smith Jones. Yet hope ran anew with the arrival of a 21-year-old Frenchman who studied and learned the language alone in his hometown of Le Havre, France.
Edge of the Knife (Saturday, 9:30 p.m.) Guilt-ridden after a tragic accident at sea, Adiits’ii (Tyler York) retreats into the wilderness where he’s plagued by spirits and transformed into Gaagiixiid/Gaagiid, the Haida Wildman. As his loved ones, including best friend Kwa (William Russ), set out to capture and cure him, Adiits’ii grows increasingly feral. Co-directors Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown fashion an old-school 19th-century epic, the first narrative scripted and shot in two dialects of the endangered Haida language.
Angelique’s Isle (Sunday, 6 p.m.) This closing night feature-length survival thriller is set during the great copper rush of 1845. Newlyweds Angelique (Julia Jones), an Anishinaabe woman, and her voyageur husband Charlie (Charlie Carrick) are stranded throughout a brutal winter on Lake Superior’s Isle Royale, where they fight starvation, the elements and the treacherous lake itself.
The full program and ticket information is available at waff.ca.