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Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance

Alanis Obomsawin / Canada / 1993 / 119 ' / English

Credits

Alanis Obomsawin
Yurij Luhovy
Tony Reed
Don Ayer
Jean-Pierre Joutel
Serge Boivin
Alanis Obomsawin & Wolf Koenig

Awards & Festivals

Best Long Documentary Award MEDIAWAVE / International Festival of Visual Arts April 28 to May 3 1997, Györ - Hungary
Special Jury Award in Division Film and Video - Category: 5 - Current Affairs Golden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival April 28 to May 12 1994, San Francisco - USA
Special Award Aotearoa Film Festival November 24 to 28 1993, Whakatane - New.Zealand
American Indian Motion Picture Awards - Best Documentary Feature Film Annual American Indian Film Festival November 11 to 20 1993, San Francisco - USA
CITY TV Award for Best Canadian Feature Film - with a cash prize of 25,000$ International Film Festival September 9 to 18 1993, Toronto - Canada
Award of Excellence for Best Editing Atlantic Film Festival September 24 to October 3 1993, Halifax - Canada
NFB Feature Documentary Award - with a cash prize of 500$ (Tied with In the Land of the Deaf) International Film Festival October 1 to 17 1993, Vancouver - Canada
Special Award - Documentary Jury International Film Festival November 5 to 13 1993, Amiens - France
IDA Award - Distinguished Documentary Achievement IDA Annual Awards Competition November 5 1993, Los Angeles - USA
Silver Sesterce - Special Jury Award given to a cinematographic work Visions du Réel / Festival international du cinéma documentaire October 11 to 17 1993, Nyon - Switzerland
"We are Sovereign" Award Two Rivers Native Film and Video Festival October 21 to 24 1993, Minneapolis - USA
IDA Award - Distinguished Documentary Achievement IDA Annual Awards Competition November 5 1993, Los Angeles - USA

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On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into the international spotlight.

Synopsis

On a hot July day in 1990, an historic confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Québec, into the international spotlight and into the Canadian conscience. Director Alanis Obomsawin endured 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Québec police and the Canadian army. A powerful feature-documentary emerges that takes you right into the action of an age-old aboriginal struggle. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades, providing insight into the Mohawks' unyelding determination to protect their land.

 

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