Underplayed Gems

Biidaaban (2018)

Biidaaban poster
Original title
Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes)
Directed by
Amanda Strong
Genre
animation
Country
Canada
Runtime
19 min
Rated
18A
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young shapeshifter in a modern city secretly revives an old First Nations tradition of collecting sap from maple trees to make sugar.

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What happens

Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Amanda Strong and released in 2018. Based on the writings of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, the film centres on Biidaaban, a young shapeshifter on a secret mission to revive the traditional First Nations ritual of harvesting sap from maple trees to make maple sugar, despite living in a contemporary urban area. The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, where it won the award for Best Script and received an honourable mention from the Best Canadian Animation jury, and at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best British Columbia Short Film. The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2018. It received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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