Monday, October 3 at 7:00 PM
Free screening + discussion
Post-screening conversation with Leya Hale, Bring Her Home filmmaker, and additional guests.
The event is a partnership of the Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis, Friends of the Falls, Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI), and MSP Film Society.
About the Films
This River | by Erika MacPherson & Katherena Vermette | 19 min. | 2016
This short documentary filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba offers an Indigenous perspective on the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who has disappeared. Volunteer activist Kyle Kematch and award-winning writer Katherena Vermette have both survived this heartbreak and share their histories with each other and the audience. While their stories are different, they both exemplify the beauty, grace, resilience, and activism born out of the need to do something. Film provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Bring Her Home | by Leya Hale | 56 min. | 2022
Bring Her Home follows three Indigenous women – an artist, an activist, and a politician – as they fight to vindicate and honor their missing and murdered relatives who have fallen victims to a growing epidemic across Indian country. Despite the lasting effects from historical trauma, each woman must search for healing while navigating racist systems that brought about this very crisis.
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