Yintah
Wednesday, August 7 - 8:30 pm
Cinéma du Musée
Yintah
Directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano
Canada
2024
Documentary
English and Witsuwit’en with French subtitles
125 minutes
www.yintahfilm.com
With protagonists and activists Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Freda Huson in attendance. Q&A after the screening
Synopsis
YINTAH, meaning “land” in the Wet’suwet’en language, tells the story of an Indigenous nation asserting sovereignty. It is the story of the Wet’suwet’en people reoccupying their territory and resisting the construction of multiple pipelines. The film follows Tsakë ze’ Howilhkat Freda Huson and Tsakë ze’ Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, along with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and fellow land defenders, as they reoccupy and protect their traditional land in a decade-long battle to keep out the companies that seek to exploit it.