Ceremony

Event ID: FS19491
Mon, Mar 16, 2026 | 2:15 AM - 3:38 AM
Venue: Alamo Lamar 9 (Alamo Lamar)
Summary

When the ooligan vanishes from Bella Coola, its absence remains like a scar, pointing to a history that reaches far beyond the river. From ramshackled Nuxalk Radio, voices rise through crackling airwaves to trace the forces no one was meant to uncover. What begins as a local broadcast becomes an awakening as testimony, watercolour animation and rare archival weave a story of survival, return and the quiet revolution of an Indigenous Nation that refuses to disappear.
Format: Documentary Feature
Category: Documentary Feature
Event Type: screening
Presented By: n/a
Contributors

Banchi Hanuse
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