
Woods Hole Film Festival
Tue, Jul 30
|Redfield Auditorium
The 2024 Woods Hole Film Festival has many films this year championing racial justice and giving representation to color. "Sugarcane" explores the history of trauma for Indigenous People in Canada after finding unmarked graves in 2021


Time & Location
Jul 30, 2024, 6:15 PM – 8:10 PM
Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water St, Falmouth, MA 02543, USA
About the event
Sugarcane. Three years ago, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. A gripping investigation into these graves unearths secrets below and above ground, igniting a reckoning in the lives of survivors and their descendants, including the film’s co-director. Years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools resulted in a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. “Sugarcane” illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to persevere. Winner of the U.S. Documentary Directing Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, this powerful film is a reckoning with a troubled past history.Information and tickets for all Woods Hole Film Festival Events are here.