First Nations on Film: Documentaries by Alanis Obomsawin: Screening of "Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance" May 30, 2008

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993, 119 min.). On a hot July day in 1990, a historic confrontation propelled issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into the international spotlight and the Canadian collective conscience. Director Obomsawin endured seventy-eight nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Québec police, and the Canadian army. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades, providing insight into the Mohawks’ unyielding determination to protect their land.

MFA members, seniors, and students $6; general admission $7.

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