8.3
Night and Fog
1956
Bones of Crows (2023)
June 2, 20232h 2mEN
6.8
14 votes
Overview
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.
Director
Marie ClementsWriter
Where to Watch
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Status
Released
Original Language
Cree
Budget
$19.0M
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Screen Siren PicturesGrana ProductionsMarie Clements MediaAyasew Ooskana Pictures
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Writer, Producer and Director Marie Clements' complex and fast-paced movie Bones of Crows has captured the complex effects of Canadian residential schools' legacy of abuse through the voice of Aline Spears (Grace Dove), a Cree woman forced to endure sexual, physical and emotional abuse at a Canadian Roman Catholic run residential school. What sets this story apart from others is the complex telling through PTSD flashes that weave not only her story but the stories of three generations in her family whose voices represent eras of nuanced racism culminating in child death cover-ups, suicide and…
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