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Sugarcane
Directed by
Julian Brave NoiseCat
and
Emily Kassie
Releasing Sep 19
1h 47m
Documentary
8.3
100%
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An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school sparks a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
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Cast of Sugarcane
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Self
Willie Sellars
Self
Charlene Belleau
Self
Ed Archie Noisecat
Self
Chief Willie Sellars
Self
Sugarcane Reviews
The Film Stage
Dan Mecca
It's impossible to overstate the trauma that is explored throughout Sugarcane, a harrowing documentary on the sins of St. Joseph's Mission in British Columbia and the Canadian Indian residential school system as a whole.
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Dwight Brown
This is documentary filmmaking at its best. A credit to the genre. Compelling, spiritual and enlightening.
Geek Vibes Nation
M.N. Miller
Sugarcane is essential viewing. Emily Kassie and Julian Brave Noise Cat's documentary film is a haunting and overwhelmingly powerful examination of religious assimilation.
indieWire
Esther Zuckerman
'Sugarcane' is something more meaningful than a mere history lesson. It's a portrait of what remains when injustice occurs.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Valerie Complex
This powerful documentary operates from a place of pure and total empathy.
Critic's Notebook
Sarah Manvel
Where "Sugarcane" truly shines is in its knowledge that the least we can do for the survivors is listen to their stories and respect the courage it takes to put such awful experiences into words.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
"The hope emerges in the film's own ability to engage, politely disagreeing with those who believe the past should be left be but having to spend little time there itself when it can see it so actively shaping the present."
Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
Sensitively approaches a painful history.
Screen Zealots
Louisa Moore
The documentary's critical yet empathetic tone gives justice to these painful, shocking stories about a horrifying legacy of Indigenous abuse.
Variety
Joe Leydon
Co-directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie deliver a quietly devastating account of unpunished crimes committed by representatives of the Catholic Church.
Paste Magazine
Jacob Oller
Sugarcane gives faces, names and histories to those affected by the residential schools-and looks, bracingly, towards a future where healing is possible.
POV Magazine
Jason Gorber
Sugarcane deftly and profoundly provides a means by which the greater process of understanding is to be accomplished.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A powerful and searing historical documentary.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
It is a nonfiction film made with remarkable empathy and restraint, a sober but humane interrogation of the recurrent damage done by arrogantly applied benign intentions.
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