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The Black Case (2014)

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Original title
La mallette noire
Directed by
Caroline Monnet
Genre
fiction film
Country
Canada
Runtime
13 min
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1930, an 8 year old Indigenous girl and her infant cousin are taken from their family and placed in a residential school infirmary because of a tuberculosis scare. The film shows the traumatic events that happen over a single night.

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