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- 2024
- R
- National Geographic Documentary Films
- 1 h 51 m
- 2024
- R
- National Geographic Documentary Films
- 1 h 51 m
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
Written By: Emily Kassie
- 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
Written By: Emily Kassie
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Top Cast
Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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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
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Aug 9, 2024
Sugarcane is soul-shaking. It’s profoundly evocative, with spoken memories and moments of inability to muster the words gut-punching with equal measure.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 34 User Ratings
6.5
65% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
18% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
18% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 34 User Ratings
6.5
65% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
18% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
18% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Dec 12, 2024
This outstanding film has moved audiences worldwide. It is artistic, sensitive and provocative. It has heightened awareness across North America and educated those of us who were unaware of the horrors of the residential schools and their legacy of pain and trauma. Most significantly, it has helped a wounded community to help and allowed the film’s participants to express themselves after decades of shame and silence. It has impacted every indigenous community who has seen it and was a catalyst for the President, PM and the Pope to apologize. There is no other documentary I have seen this past year that has had this level of social impact. A beautifully crafted film that has stayed with me for months.
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Dec 11, 2024
This documentary is heartwrenching and life altering. The stories of survivors are harrowing and full of despair that seems to seep through the screen with palpable sadness that reflects the depth of pain, loss and suffering of the First Nation's people in Canada and greater Turtle Island. Even more turmoil than anyone should ever endure is revealed by the stories of those who are victims and were buried in secrecy and evasion to cover up the abuses of clergy and the government on the most vulnerable and innocent. It's a must see for anyone who cares about the ongoing genocide of tribes and the untold stories that are now being brought to light after generations of continual exploitation. Any and all activists who care about these matters should watch this and raise awareness for the voiceless lost relatives that for so long went ignored. 5 stars.
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Sep 19, 2024
The damaged, rising community depicted in Sugarland are in no mood for apologies. They want accountability.
Aug 9, 2024
For one, it’s immersive and incredibly beautiful, shot like poetry and scored by Mali Obomsawin. The result is both stunning and sobering.
Jan 27, 2024
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.
Oct 17, 2024
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.
Aug 14, 2024
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.
Dec 23, 2024
Just another movie to make you despise the Catholic Church even more. A hard watch that will make you sick to the stomach. A great investigative work about the residential schools built in Canada to "civilize" Indigenous children that actually were home to great evil and depravity. This documentary deserves an Academy Award nomination.
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Dec 11, 2024
Um documentário forte, poderoso, impactante, e o faz sem o típico alarmismo a que poeria ter se sbmetido, tendo em vista o peso das declarações. Parece, inclusive, que a direção vai tentando amenizar e freiar o trator de emoções, lapidando demais os depoimentos a fim de não chocar. Com isso, há muitas pausas para contemplar o espaço e a natureza, que servem como alívio, mas também diminuem um pouco o peso do que está sendo visto. Como filme denúncia e reflexivo, é irretocável. Como cinema, se apóia mais na geografia e nos depoimentos mesmo. Um dos melhores documentários do ano.
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Dec 2, 2024
Important subject but super mediocre execution and bordering on extremely stage and manipulative.
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Production Company
- Doc Society
- 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
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
