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Beans [Opens Nov. 12 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to info@mspfilm.org or call 612/331-7563 and available on various VOD platforms.] After a 12-year-old Mohawk student (Kiawentiio Tarbell), who lives on the Kahnawà:ke reserve with her parents (Rainbow Dickerson and Joel Montgrand) and younger sister (Violah Beauvais) in Quebec, gets approval to attend a white high school off the reserve in Tracey Deer's powerful, factually inspired, award-winning, poignant, coming-of-age, thought-provoking, well-acted, 92-minute, 2020 film, she finds herself growing up quickly and feeling more rage and depression as she experiences more violence and racism, hangs out with a rebellious peer (Paulina Jewel Alexis), and gets involved in the 78-day, armed standoff in 1990 known as the Oka Crisis (July 11-Sept. 26) in which the indigenous Mohawk people go up against the Quebec police, the Royal Mounted Canadian Police, and the Canadian Army as they diligently and courageously try to protect a sacred, ancient burial ground known as "The Pines" from developers attempting to expand a 9-hole golf course into 18 and to erect condominiums.
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