Nostalgic for Nothing Cinema is excited to present a screening of the classic documentary of the Kanien’kéhaka Resistance known as the "Oka Crisis", Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance. On the eve of so-called "Thanksgiving", we hope this film provides insight to the hundreds of years of settler colonialism on Turtle Island and the ongoing native resistance for land, sovereignty, and liberation.

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness. Pathbreaking filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin – at times with a small crew, at times alone – spent 78 days behind Kanien’kéhaka lines filming the armed standoff between protesters, the Quebec police, and the Canadian army. The result is a uniquely harrowing, unsettling, and impactful cinematic experience.

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance / dir. Alanis Obomsawin / 1993 / 118 min

Masks required.