Jessica Deer, Courtesy The Eastern Door
The 27th edition of the annual event will transform Place des Festivals from August 2-9.
“This year, as always, we have great outdoor activities around what we call now Place du Makusham,” said André Dudemaine, director of cultural activities for Land InSights, the driving force behind the festival.
Throughout the week, the area will include festive installations, performances, concerts, active art,
and food, while a parallel international film and video competition will present the best of cinematographic creations by and about Indigenous Peoples.
“There are a lot of feature films now – documentary or fiction. This is really a new phenomenon. A few years ago, when we had one or two feature films in the festival we were happy because the rest were mainly short films or medium-sized films for television. Now, feature films are really something common in Indigenous production,” Dudemaine said.
Among the films to be featured are Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s Angry Inuk, and Daniel Redenbach and Janine Windolph’s The Land of Rock and Gold, which stars Kahnawake actress Kawennáhere Jacobs.
The festival will also include the Montreal premiere of Rezolution Pictures’ feature documentary RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked The World, which shines light on Indigenous musicians’ contributions to rock, heavy metal, jazz, and blues.
In collaboration with Montreal’s 375th anniversary, a special theatrical and visual production, Ioskeha et Tawiscara: le grand Jeu de la création will span three evenings at Place du Makusham.
“We want to have big figures – 25 feet high – that will represent the two brothers and they will stand at two ends of Ste. Catherine Street – one near Bleury and the other near St. Laurent – and they will come together at the bottom of Place du Makusham,” said Dudemaine.
The interactive theatre, choreographed and directed by Pierre-Paul Savoie, delves into the Creation Story.
On August 4, Nikamotan Mtl will take place on the main outdoor stage featuring new Indigenous wave and well-known performers on the Quebec musical scene: Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine with Random Recipe; Matiu with Dramatik; Esther Pennell with La Bronze; and Laura Niquay with Sunny Duval.
On August 9, the festival will close with a dedication to the 10-year anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, at the Grande Bibliothèque auditorium.
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Jessica Deer is a deep-thinking, quick- witted (and perhaps heavily caffeinated) columnist at The Eastern Door, Kahnawake’s community news-
paper.
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