Director: Shane Belcourt | Canada | English | 2007

Ray (Duane Murphy) is a disgruntled writer from Vancouver in Toronto on business. Jolene is a Los Angeles based painter in town to interview an elder named Max (Lorne Cardinal). Each is facing their own identity crisis, Ray for feeling more Metis than he looks, and Jolene for feeling unworthy of an eagle feather bestowed on her by Max. Together the two face what it means to be Indigenous in the city. A humorous trip through modern First Peoples life, Tkaronto (the original Mohawk name for Toronto) is loosely based on writer-director Belcourt’s own life (like Ray, his father is also a prominent Metis politician) and confronts the conflict of identity felt by many urban First Peoples today, making for a film that “feels at once so deeply personal and so universal.” Now Magazine

Source: KinoSmith Inc.

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