A documentary film about the history and resilience of Canada’s Innu people will kick off next month’s International First Peoples Festival in Montreal.
The Aug. 4 premier of “Nitassinan,” directed by Joséphine Bacon et Kim O’Bomsawin, at Théâtre Outremont will mark the beginning of the festival’s 36th edition.
The following nine days of the festival will bring together film, music, theatre, dance, visual arts, literature and more.
Many of the events are taking place at the Place des Festivals, with most film screenings happening at Cinéma du Musée.
On Aug. 7, poet Flora Aurima Devatine will present “The Stars of Dawn,” a documentary dedicated to her. Devatine is “a leading figure in Tahitian literature and a driving force behind the revival of the ancestral Polynesian language,” First Peoples Festival organizers say.
The festival will wrap up Aug, 14 with a commemorative concert, “Here Stood the Tree of Peace” — an intertwining of music, song, and poetry.
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