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Among wounded beings, neglected and often despised, like flashes of light on a blocked horizon, we witness great moments of humanity and hope. For weaving the marvels of an ancient legend into the banal contemporary reality of homeless people and for understanding that, atop the rubble of their broken dreams, men still dream;

The First Peoples Festival 2016 jury awards the Teueikan Grand Prize to Mekko by Sterlin Harjo (USA) 

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A man built bridges so the ancestral cosmovision of the Kogi people of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta...

In North America, new voices are emerging in First Nations cinema, through the work of First Peoples filmmakers who nowadays no longer hesitate to take on feature-length films.

For two feature films from the USA, the city has become the décor, the habitat and backdrop. There are clear cinematographic references: Herzog in the case of Harjo’s film Mekko, in which he chose Aboriginal homeless people in...

The festival offers opportunities for contact and exchange with Aboriginals  filmmakers , storytellers, artists and leaders.

The  most intimate setting where , in small groups over coffee , an in-depth discussion is possible , is the meetings held at the Espace culturel Ashukan with, this year,  Innu actor, Marco Colin; Mohawk filmmaker, Courtney Montour; Abenaki filmmaker Pepper O’Bomsawin; and Polynesian multidisciplinary artist, Daniel Taulapapa McMullin.

How one person becomes a filmmaker, actor , poet or artist when growing up in a First Nations community? Conversations...

June 21

11 am: Participants will gather on St Jacques Street, at the intersection of St. Laurent Boulevard.

11:30 am: Bearing our giant effigies, to the sound of the fanfare and drums, we will march joyously towards Place d’Armes, where a festive, ceremonial and artistic program will take place.

Noon: Lightinh the Solstice fire, tobacco ceremony and ceremonial speeches. Then, the drums, songs and dancing. With the Keepers of the Eastern Door from Kahnawake, l’Orphéon de l’Île à la Tortue and the First Peoples’ Festival Masks and Effigies group.
 

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