3 Indian Tales (2014)

Original title

3 histoires d'indiens

Directed by

Robert Morin

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 10m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Canadian docufiction film follows three young First Nations people as they pursue their own ambitions. One wants to start a community TV station, another listens to classical music while traveling to a mine, and two others pray to a saint. The film aims to show these individuals as engaged and purposeful rather than fitting stereotypes.

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What happens

3 Indian Tales (French: 3 histoires d'indiens) is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Robert Morin and released in 2014. Using a cast of non-professional actors, the film tells three stories of First Nations youth: Erik wants to open a community television station, Shayne listens to classical music as he travels to a mining site, Shandy-Ève and Marie-Claude pray to Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. Morin made the film with the goal of encouraging viewers to reconsider their prejudices of First Nations by dramatizing the stories of real youth who are not falling into the stereotypes, but instead are engaged and ambitious and living with passion and purpose. He shot the film with indigenous youth from the Kitcisakik and Lac-Simon reserves in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec. The film premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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