It’s been 10 months since “Sugarcane” first premiered at Sundance, where it picked up the Directing Award: U.S. for documentary. Since then, directors Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat have landed a worldwide distribution deal with National Geographic Documentary Films and have traveled across the world with their film, now stopping at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam as part of the Best of Fests strand.
“Sugarcane” follows a long-coming reckoning at the titular reserve, sparked by the discovery of unmarked graves on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada in 2021. The documentary explores how Indigenous communities were forced to suppress
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