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BEANS | Spring Film Series

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Saturday, January 29, 2022 7:30pm to 10pm

86 East 8th Street, Holland, MI 49423-3504

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“Beans,” showing Monday-Saturday, Jan. 24-29, is a Canadian drama film exploring the 1990 Oka Crisis at Kanesatake through the eyes of a young Mohawk girl, Tekehentahkwa (nicknamed “Beans”). Twelve-year-old Beans lives on a reservation in Kahnawake and is torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence. She is forced to grow up fast when the Oka Crisis strikes – the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990. The film is a semi-autobiographical story directed by Tracey Deer, who lived through the events as a child. Variety describes the film as a “thoughtful, stirring reflection by someone who survived it all, quietly demanding acknowledgement of not just her land, but of her life.” The film is not rated.

 

  • Elizabeth Stevens
  • Samuel Stevens

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