Cameron Fraser-Monroe

"First Nations people must prove their ancestral land in order to negotiate for its return. I wanted to take a playful look at these “lines in the sand” in this film while reminding people that Indigenous Peoples disagreeing on territory doesn’t disvalue our inherent right to it." Fraser-Monroe

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.