Tonight's opening event will be the world premiere of a newly commissioned composition by renowned throat-singer Tanya Tagaq. She is an award-winning and Juno-nominated artist who takes a very avant-garde approach to the traditional techniques of throat-singing.
She will perform the piece as a live accompaniment to the groundbreaking if controversial silent documentary Nanook of the North by Robert J. Flaherty. Although discredited as a pure documentary, the film was nonetheless a milestone of cinema and sympathetic to its subjects in a way that mainstream cinema has only begun to match.
Other films being screened include Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Before Tomorrow, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Smoke Signals, Once Were Warriors, Bran Nue Dae, Busong, and The Orator. Some of the films will be introduced by the filmmakers.
A side program First Peoples: Reclaimed Visions explores films about Natives by non-Native directors. That series begins with a screening of the documentary Reel Injun introduced by Jesse Wente, before exploring films such as Dances With Wolves, Black Robe and Dead Man.
Other highlights of First Peoples Cinema: 1500 Nations, One Tradition include In Conversation With... Graham Greene, an onstage discussion with the distinguished actor led by Jesse Wente, Head of Film Programmes at TIFF Bell Lightbox. There will be a free exhibition Home on Native Land featuring artists from Canada and around the world. A free concert of A Tribe Called Red takes place on August 11, 11pm at Harbourfront Centre.
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Films in First Peoples Cinema: 1500 Nations, One Tradition
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Zacharias Kunuk
Winner of the Camera d'Or for best first film at the Cannes Film Festival, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn's mythically grand and earthily funny epic tells an archetypal tale of ambition, jealousy, betrayal and murder on the frozen plains of northern Canada.
Friday June 22
5:15 PM
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Zacharias Kunuk
Disaster strikes an Inuit community following the arrival of a team of European explorers, in this damning and profoundly moving vision of colonialism's destructive impact from the makers of Atanarjuat.
Friday June 22
9:15 PM
Mana Waka introduced by Heperi Mita
A reconstruction of a priceless documentary record of New Zealand's First Peoples.
Saturday June 23
1:00 PM
Before Tomorrow
Marie-Hélène Cousineau
The makers of Atanarjuat produced this poetic, haunting allegory about an Inuit family trapped on an island that receives a premonition of their people's apocalyptic end.
Saturday June 23
3:30 PM
Samson and Delilah / Empire introduced by Warwick Thornton
Director Warwick Thornton introduces his Cannes prize-winning debut feature.
Saturday June 23
6:00 PM
Patu! introduced by Heperi Mita
A raw, visceral documentary record of the violent anti-apartheid protests that rocked New Zealand in 1981.
Saturday June 23
9:15 PM
Incident at Restigouche / Bastion Point Day 507 introduced by Alanis Obomsawin and Heperi Mita
A pair of groundbreaking documentaries from two of the pioneering figures of First Peoples cinema.
Sunday June 24
3:15 PM
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance introduced by Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin introduces her acclaimed, on-the-spot documentary about the 1990 Oka crisis.
Sunday June 24
5:30 PM
Smoke Signals introduced by Chris Eyre
Chris Eyre introduces his Sundance award-winning road movie.
Sunday June 24
8:30 PM
Rocks at Whiskey Trench
Alanis Obomsawin
The fourth film in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Oka crisis uses a single, shameful incident as a lens through which to examine the region's long history of prejudice and injustice against the Mohawk population.
Thursday June 28
6:30 PM
Four Sheets to the Wind
Sterlin Harjo
A young Aboriginal man leaves the reservation and joins his troubled sister in the city in this Sundance hit.
Thursday June 28
9:15 PM
Mauri
Merata Mita
The first fiction feature by renowned documentary filmmaker Merata Mita is a raw drama about a Maori man on the run from the law who finds shelter and solace in a small Indigenous community.
Friday June 29
6:15 PM
Once Were Warriors / Woodcarver
Lee Tamahori's ferocious drama was the first Indigenous feature to make a truly global impact.
Friday June 29
9:00 PM
Tracey Moffatt: Night Cries
Poetic, gorgeously crafted and fiercely political, these three short films from the internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Tracey Moffatt are a vital contribution to the revolutionary aesthetics of First Peoples cinema.
Saturday June 30
12:45 PM
Radiance
Rachel Perkins
Three sisters reunite for their mother's funeral and confront surprising secrets and buried truths in the first fiction feature by Rachel Perkins, which established her as a leading figure in the emerging Indigenous New Wave.
Saturday June 30
3:15 PM
Bran Nue Dae
Rachel Perkins
Geoffrey Rush plays a stuffy priest at an Australian mission school who takes off after one of his runaway charges in this bright, cheerful musical which slyly undermines the legacy of colonialism through the power of song (and jazz hands). Saturday June 30
5:30 PM
First Peoples Shorts I: Canadian Visions
Zacharias Kunuk's Genie Award-winning Sirmilik heads this eclectic programme of Canadian short films.
Monday July 2
1:00 PM
Tkaronto introduced by Shane Belcourt
Shane Belcourt introduces his Toronto-set first feature.
Monday July 2
4:00 PM
Where the Spirit Lives introduced by Bruce Pittman and Michelle St. John
The director and star of this groundbreaking drama about Canada's notorious residential schools introduce our screening.
Monday July 2
7:00 PM
Beneath Clouds
Ivan Sen
A young, light-skinned Aboriginal woman running away from home encounters an Aboriginal man on the run from a prison farm in Ivan Sen's entrancingly intimate road movie.
Wednesday July 4
9:00 PM
Eagle vs Shark / Tama Tu
New Zealand actor and director Taika Waititi has become one of the most promising young figures of the Indigenous New Wave.
Thursday July 5
6:30 PM
Ngati
Barry Barclay
A landmark in both New Zealand and First Peoples cinema, this affecting and beautifully shot film about a seaside Maori community in the late 1940s was the first fiction feature to be written and directed by a Maori filmmaker.
Thursday July 5
9:15 PM
Chick Strand's Anselmo Trilogy
Avant-garde icon Chick Strand's masterful documentary triptych, spanning twenty years in the life of Mexican Native tuba enthusiast Anselmo Aguascalientes, is a lyrical ode to the beauty, strength and endurance of ordinary people.
Wednesday July 11
6:30 PM
Bedevil
Tracey Moffatt
Celebrated multimedia artist Tracey Moffatt became the first Australian Aboriginal woman to direct a feature film with this haunting, highly stylized trilogy of ghost stories.
Wednesday July 11
8:45 PM
Ningla A-Na
Alessandro Cavadini
A vital, on-the-spot document of the "Aboriginal Embassy" established by activists on the lawn of the Australian Parliament in 1972.
Thursday July 12
6:30 PM
On the Ice / Sikumi
Murder haunts the blinding white vistas of the far North in these films from director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean.
Thursday July 12
9:00 PM
First Peoples Shorts II: Deep Roots
This shorts programme is headlined by an intimate documentary portrait of Tom Lewis, star of the groundbreaking Australian feature The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.
Saturday July 14
1:00 PM
First Peoples Shorts III: New Worlds
These six short films offer entrancing, even otherworldly visions of the Indigenous experience.
Saturday July 28
12:30 PM
Busong
Auraeus Solito
The first feature ever made in the Palawan language is an intoxicating mixture of reality and myth, past and future.
Saturday July 28
3:15 PM
Toomelah
Ivan Sen
A ten-year-old boy living in a remote Aboriginal community becomes entangled in a gang war in this gritty portrait of reservation life from director Ivan Sen.
Sunday July 29
3:45 PM
The Orator
Tusi Tamasese
A diminutive farmer must find the courage to speak out after tragedy strikes his family in the stunningly beautiful debut by Tusi Tamasese, the first feature ever made in the Samoan language.
Thursday August 2
6:30 PM
Jeff Barnaby: File Under Miscellaneous introduced by Jeff Barnaby
This young Mi'gmaq filmmaker from Quebec has gained international attention for his darkly dystopic visions of the post-colonial present and future.
Friday August 3
Ten Canoes / Sioux Ghost Dance / Buffalo Dance
The Cannes award-winning fable from Australia is preceded by two of the earliest filmed records of Indigenous peoples ever made.
Saturday August 4
1:00 PM
Mohawk Girls / Nana
Tracey Deer's compassionate documentary about three teenage girls living on Montreal's Kahnawake reservation is preceded by a short film from the director of the Cannes award-winner Samson and Delilah.
Saturday August 11
1:00 PM
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