Our People Will Be Healed is a 2017 Canadian documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin. The film premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[1] The film explores the Helen Betty Osborne Ininiw Education Resource Centre, an N-12 Frontier School Division school in Norway House, Manitoba where Cree students are taught about their own history and culture alongside the regular Manitoba school curriculum.[2][3][4]

Obomsawin previously filmed at the school during the production of We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice to document the story of Jordan River Anderson, a Cree child whose death became the basis of Jordan's Principle, a federal government commitment to funding services for Indigenous children. Impressed by the school's success in helping to develop strong, healthy children, she decided to tell its story in a standalone film. The title, Our People Will Be Healed is a quote from someone interviewed in the film, and Obomsawin has said she sees a new optimism for Canadian Indigenous people.[4]

In December, TIFF named the film to its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian films.[5]

In 2021 the film was selected for inclusion in Celebrating Alanis, a retrospective program of Obomsawin's films at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "TIFF ’17: Zweig, Latimer, Qayumi and Obomsawin talk Canadian docs". RealScreen, August 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ "TIFF ’17: “The Carter Effect,” “Our People Will Be Healed” get world premieres". RealScreen, August 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Wilner, Norm (August 31, 2017). "Our People Will Be Healed". NOW Magazine. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Taylor, Kate (September 5, 2017). "TIFF 2017: With latest documentary, Alanis Obomsawin reaches an optimistic moment in her career". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Canada's Top Ten has some glaring omissions". Now, December 6, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Toronto Film Fest Unveils Platform Program Slate; Riz Ahmed To Head Jury". Shoot Online, August 11, 2021.


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