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Summary An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Directed By: Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- National Geographic Documentary Films
- 1 h 51 m
- 2024
- R
- National Geographic Documentary Films
- 1 h 51 m
Sugarcane
6.5
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Summary An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Directed By: Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
90
100% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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Sugarcane is soul-shaking. It’s profoundly evocative, with spoken memories and moments of inability to muster the words gut-punching with equal measure.
This is far more than just a film.
The damaged, rising community depicted in Sugarland are in no mood for apologies. They want accountability.
For one, it’s immersive and incredibly beautiful, shot like poetry and scored by Mali Obomsawin. The result is both stunning and sobering.
Sugarcane’s sensitivity to the ongoing pain of its subjects is one of the film’s principal achievements. NoiseCat and Kassie offer an affecting portrait of a community that endures in spite of colonial genocide.
The sickening facts of the case are presented with a respectful restraint but it’s impossible to watch this and not feel a cold, hard rage on behalf of the victims.
Co-directed by Emily Kassie, “Sugarcane” – which won a directing prize at the Sundance Film Festival in January and won the Golden Gate documentary award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in April – contains stunning natural beauty and painful revelations.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
6.5
73% Positive
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0% Mixed
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27% Negative
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Production Company
Fit Via Vi Film Productions,
Hedgehog Films,
Impact Partners,
Kassie Films
Release Date Aug 9, 2024
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating R
Genres
Awards
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 8 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Seattle International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations