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Sugarcane
Directed by
Emily Kassie
,
Julian Brave NoiseCat
R
2024
1h 47m
Documentary
7.0
100%
80%
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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 / Director
Willie Sellars
Self
Charlene Belleau
Self
Ed Archie Noisecat
Self
Chief Willie Sellars
Self
Emily Kassie
Director / Writer / Producer
Kellen Quinn
Producer
Sugarcane Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
July 2, 2025
“I felt dirty as Indian all my life at residential school. Residential school taught us shame and guilt. “ Ah, the Catholic Church. Greatest movie villain of all time.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
This multipronged filmmaking approach, chronicling the painstaking work of a cold case while documenting what years of whispers and silence have wrought, is what gives "Sugarcane" its raw power.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The filmmakers resist every opportunity to amp up or falsify a single development. The truth is scalding enough.
AWFJ.org
Jennifer Merin
Sugarcane is a hard-hitting documentary about the abuse of Indigenous children at St Joseph's Residential Mission School in British Columbia. The children suffered isolation, brutal beatings, sexual abuse. The trauma has lasted until today.
Third Coast Review
Lisa Trifone
Sugarcane, a powerful new documentary co-directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat, offers absolutely no chance to look away from a frightening reality long brushed under the rug.
InSession Film
Will Bjarnar
Sugarcane is more urgent than any other work to hit screens so far this year, and impressively, it's not one that feels the need to over-bang its principle drums in order to make note of the film's import.
The SS Ben Hecht
Stephen Silver
A damning portrayal of the legacy of Canada's Indian Residential Schools- and one of the best documentaries of the year
The Reader (Omaha, NE)
Ryan Syrek
The documentary is a haunting, wildly upsetting attempt to hold the Catholic Church to account for its mistreatment of Native American populations. "Good luck with that," says several thousand years of history.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat, the film is an indictment of a cultural tragedy; a testament to the steadfastness, against all odds, of the Indigenous community; and a plea for healing.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
NoiseCat, who is of Secwepemc and St'at'imc descent, has co-directed a powerful documentary, "Sugarcane," which not only follows the investigation but portrays the resilience of the people and culture of British Columbia's Williams Lake First Nation.
Chicago Reader
Kyle Logan
Sugarcane is as harrowing as it is vital. It's a remarkably explicit consideration of intergenerational trauma that manages to center specific suffering without forgoing any aspects of the conditions that birthed such violence.
Spectrum Culture
Alan Zilberman
Although this is an act of courage and the people in it have dealt with horrors, it only has intermittent scenes of power. There is a persistent unfocused quality, with the filmmakers believing that big emotional scenes are synonymous with quality.
RogerEbert.com
Peyton Robinson
It's profoundly evocative, with spoken memories and moments of inability to muster the words gut-punching with equal measure.
Culture Mix
Carla Hay
Sugarcane is a personally intimate examination of the abuse and suspected murders in Canada's Indigenous residential schools. Some of the investigative elements come up short, but this documentary is a powerful testament to survivor resilience.
Nonfics (Substack)
Christopher Campbell
Sugarcane is masterfully put together.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
Both eye-opening and gut-wrenching, this thoughtful documentary brings a broad resonance and urgency to a culturally specific story of systemic oppression and abuse.
DwightBrownInk.com
Dwight Brown
This is documentary filmmaking at its best. A credit to the genre. Compelling, spiritual and enlightening.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Valerie Complex
This powerful documentary operates from a place of pure and total empathy.
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.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
Sensitively approaches a painful history.
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Interview With Lily Gladstone And Sugarcane Directors
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