In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness.
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Alanis Obomsawin as Narrator (voice)
Jack Burning as Chief Joseph (voice)
Herbie Barnes as Chief Augnita
Robert Bourassa as Self
Ellen Gabriel as Self
Alanis Obomsawin Director
Wolf Koenig Producer
Tony Reed Sound Editor
Yurij Luhovy Editor
Don Ayer Sound Editor
Canada 09 September 1993
United Kingdom 12 July 1993
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Screening at MoMA as part of the Film exhibition Alanis Obomsawin: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of ...
On a July day in 1990 a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka Quebec into the international spotlight. Director Alanis ...
Directed by Alanis Obomsawin Produced by The National Film Board of Canada This feature-length documentary is set in the thick of the armed confrontation ...
1993 • CANADA • 120' OCT 23 / PM CINEMATECA – M. F. RIBEIRO CINEMA more info: ...
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27 August 1993
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11 June 1993
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA.
26 May 1993
Stefano is now forty years old but has not yet found his purpose in life, remaining an eternal dreamer waiting for that decisive enlightenment.
18 May 1993
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
24 December 1993
Ryoko, a cosmetics saleswoman, accidentally runs over a man, who turns out to be a serial rapist who escaped from a prison transport vehicle.
28 March 1993
A married doctor marries two other women and juggles a life with three wives.
01 January 1993
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29 September 1993
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