Reclamation

by TJ Cuthand
After white people have left Earth for Mars, Indigenous people talk about their work reclaiming the land & restoring the health of the planet & their communities.
2018  ·  13m  ·  Canada
English
About the Film

“Reclamation” is a documentary-style imagining of a post-dystopic future in Canada after massive climate change, wars, pollution, and the after effects of the large scale colonial project which has now destroyed the land. When Indigenous people are left behind after a massive exodus by primarily privileged White settlers who have moved to Mars, the original inhabitants of this land cope by trying to restore and rehabilitate the beautiful country they feel they belong to. Complicated by the need to look after southern climate refugees, this Post-Dystopic society struggles to reinvent itself as a more healthy community, with opportunities for healing from shared trauma, and using traditional Indigenous scientific knowledge to reclaim Canada environmentally.

Indigenous people demonstrate the jobs they are doing to heal Canada, the Earth, and themselves, like clean water projects, gathering litter, disposing safely of hazardous wastes, planting trees, conducting healing circles and ceremonies, playing together, and having discussions about what it feels like to be left behind on what was seen by White settlers as a dying, disposable, planet.

Distribution Availability: Worldwide
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Festivals and Awards
2018
Rainbow Reels Queer Film Festival, Official Selection
Director
TJ Cuthand
Set Assistant
Fallon Simard
Cast
Elwood Jimmy, Cherish Blood, Lacey Hill and Thirza Cuthand
The Next 150 Documentary Futurism Project Co-ordinator
James Goddard
Executive Producers (CP)
Svetla Turnin, Ezra Winton
Thanks
Brady and Kara, Alana Wortsman, Riki Yandt, Ruth Cuthand, June Scudeler

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