2023 Mother Tongue Film Festival: Night Raiders

4th Street Southwest,Washington DC 20560

26 February, 2023

Description

Cree/Metis filmmaker Danis Goulet’s debut feature delivers a sci-fi thriller set in the dystopian future, examining the impact of colonization on Indigenous peoples and the painful past of forced assimilation on Indigenous children. Night Raiders’ depiction of Indigenous resilience and hope, speaks to the importance of community, culture, and coming home. Please be advised, these films contain disturbing scenes and strong language that may not be appropriate for all audiences.  — Night Raiders (dir. Danis Goulet, 2021) The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in a dystopian, post-war North America. Children are considered property of the regime, which trains them to fight. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a state children’s academy and get her daughter back. A parable about the experience of the Indigenous peoples of North America, Night Raiders is a female-driven sci-fi drama about resilience, courage, and love. — The Mother Tongue Film Festival is a public program of Recovering Voices, a collaboration between Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the Asian Pacific American Center. This program received support from Arenet, the Embassy of Mexico, the Embassy of New Zealand, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Georgetown University Department of Anthropology, Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, Planet Word, The Elizabeth and Whitney MacMillan Endowment, and Wick and Bonnie Moorman.