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7 minutes

Director: Jeff Barnaby | Canada | Micmac, English with English subtitles | 2010

Set in a dystopic metropolitan hellscape, a spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi’gMaq man has resolved to assimilate into the ruling culture. He visits a surgical clinic – the display window littered with skin and limb samples – and undergoes a gruesome procedure to rid him of his red skin.

Source: Vtape

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