Among the Forest (2017)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 7M
Director : Oqim Nicholas
Synopsis
A young boy finds himself alone in the forest, fighting for survival, after escaping a residential school.
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
The Élan School was a for-profit, residential behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school located deep within the woods of Maine. Delinquent teenagers who failed to comply with other treatment programs were referred to the school as a last resort. Treatment entailed harsh discipline, surveillance, degradation, and downright abuse. Years later, the patients who were institutionalized in this facility still carry the trauma they endured, with mixed opinions on the impact of their experience.
The carefree childhood existence of an Indigenous brother and sister is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Residential School far from home.
A study of life at Christmas time in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely of children's crayon drawings and narrated by children.
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Residential school survivor Jacob struggles to hang onto his family as his demons threaten to manifest.
Christmastime at the Roman Catholic-run Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.
A young boy finds himself alone in the forest, fighting for survival, after escaping a residential school.
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