RETURNING HOME – Montreal Premiere with Director Sean Stiller in Attendance!

Join Cinema Politica Concordia for the Montreal Premiere screening of RETURNING HOME with Director Sean Stiller in Attendance!

This stunningly shot film mindfully puts into conversation the intergenerational trauma of Residential School survivors with salmon habitat destruction in BC – indelibly linking Indigenous culture to resilience and the environment.

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ABOUT THE FILM
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RETURNING HOME

Sean Stiller / Canada / 2021 / 1 hour 12min / English

Canada’s Residential Schools are the legacy of a world where relationships are severed in the service of power and where people become detached from one another and the complex webs of interdependence. Among the Secwépemc in British Columbia, one such story is that of Phyllis Jack-Webstad, a residential school survivor whose experiences inspired the Orange Shirt Day movement.

RETURNING HOME follows Phyllis on a nationwide educational tour, while her family struggles to heal multigenerational wounds at home in Secwépemc territory. Amid a global pandemic and the lowest salmon run in Canadian history, the film also explores the absence of salmon along the upper Fraser River, and how a multi-year fishing moratorium is tearing at the fabric of Secwépemc communities. By bearing witness to the trauma experienced by Phyllis and her family, RETURNING HOME holds a mirror to the trauma experienced by the natural world, too. For the Secwépemc, healing people and healing the natural world are one and the same.

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EVENT DETAILS
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This event is co-presented by Indigenous Futures Research Centre and Mikana.

Admission is by donation ($5-10 suggested). The venue is wheelchair accessible. In order to prevent the spreading of COVID 19, wearing a mask at Cinema Politica Concordia events is strongly recommended.

Date and Time

Monday, Mar 11 , 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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