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Oct 8, 2021 · Night Raiders: Directed by Danis Goulet. With Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart, Alex Tarrant, Amanda Plummer. A mother joins an underground band of vigilantes to try to rescue her daughter from a state-run institution.
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- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Danis Goulet
- 2021-10-08
Night Raiders is a dystopian science-fiction film that serves as analogy to portray the horrors of residential schools for First Nations throughout Canada. The film was written and directed by Danis Goluet, a young woman of Cree and Metis origins from La Ronge, Saskatchewan.
With Night Raiders, Goulet can confidently claim to be today’s most effective practitioner of Indigenous sci-fi, a subgenre in which time-tested cinematic thrills – speculative fiction, violence, a heightened sense of style – act as Trojan Horses for themes that audiences might otherwise ignore.
Night Raiders is a 2021 Canadian-New Zealand science fiction dystopian film written and directed by Danis Goulet. Set in a dystopian version of North America in the year 2044, the film centres on Niska (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers), a Cree woman who joins a resistance movement against the oppressive military government in order to save her daughter.
Nov 11, 2021 · “Night Raiders” imagines a dystopian world where Indigenous people have been displaced from their land and ghettoized in reserves, while their children are forcibly enrolled in residential ...
- Devika Girish
- Danis Goulet
Nov 12, 2021 · Night Raiders is a female-driven dystopian drama about resilience, courage and love. The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America.
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- Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
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The dystopian sci-fi drama is approached from a fresh perspective in Night Raiders, a deeply-felt parable about the eradication of indigenous North Americans. Full Review | Nov 13, 2021
