Film followed by a talkback with Dr. Eli Nelson (kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk)), Assistant Professor of American Studies at Williams College

Winner of the Canadian Screen Awards for Best Picture
Winner of the Vancouver International Film Festival Best Canadian First Feature Film
Honored as One of the Top Ten Canadian Films at Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF Emerging Talent Award, and TIFF’s Rising Star

Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.