Shown as part of the Indigenous Peoples Film Festival

NY Times Critic's Pick "Director Tracey Deer has made a canny portrait of Mohawk domestic life during a modern conflict. The difference between this and other homefront movies is that usually war is depicted as happening far away. Here, Beans has to make sense of a fight where her home is the battlefield, too." — New York Times

Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.

This festival is produced by Images Cinema in collaboration with SMC Cultural Affairs and the Students of HIST 276, with the generous underwriting support of Williams College.

Director - Tracey Deer
Producer - Anne-Marie Gélinas
Cast - Kiawentiio, Violah Beauvais, Rainbow Dickerson