Crested Butte Film Fest: Sugarcane

There were 140 such schools in Canada, 408 in the U.S. This is the story of one of them.

An investigation into unmarked graves at an Indian residential school in Canada ignites a reckoning in the lives of survivors and their descendants, including the film’s co-director whose father was born at the school.

SUGARCANE spotlights the lasting traumas inflicted upon indigenous North Americans in the residential school system, including physical and sexual abuse, murder and the destruction of Native culture and language. There were four such schools in southwest Colorado. Winner Best Documentary Feature – Mountainfilm.