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18.08.2021 / 03:21
‘Beans’ Review: A Mohawk Teen Navigates Personal and Political Unrest in an Affecting, Unusual Coming-of-Ager
Guy Lodge Film CriticAnyone who has attended any public events in Canada in recent years will likely be familiar with the practice of land acknowledgement: a solemn formal statement, recited before sports matches, film festival screenings or simple school assemblies, that historically contextualizes the very land on which the crowd is gathered, and admits a debt to the Indigenous people who first owned it.Depending on the delivery, it can sound like a formality, said and heard so routinely that