Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University

September 28 - October 4, 2025

Join Acadia Students hosting this public event in partnership with the AcadiaU Welkaqnik Indigenous Gathering Space, the Town of Wolfville, Acadia U programs and departments—Community Development, Nutrition and Dietetics, Politics, Sociology, Women & Gender Studies—and the Vaughn Memorial Library.

Everyone is welcome and all the film screenings are free.

Film Mawiomi
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Sep
28
Sunday, September 28, 2025
6:30 PM to
Sunday, September 28, 2025
9:00 PM
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Film Screening: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University
Given this is the 35th - anniversary - year of the 1990 'Oka crisis' we begin the mawio'mi with the film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance; it is a 1993 feature-length documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin. Everyone is welcome and all the film screenings are free.
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K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre (Auditorium)
32 University Ave
Wolfville , NS
B4P 1X9

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Sep
29
Monday, September 29, 2025
6:00 PM to
Monday, September 29, 2025
9:00 PM
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Film Screening: Angry Inuk & Twice Colonized

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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University
6pm - screening of Angry Inuk Angry Inuk Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril examines Inuit's fight to defend their culture. 7:30pm - screening of Twice colonized Twice Colonized profiles Aaju Peter, an Inuk lawyer and activist who has lived in both Greenland and Nunavut, documenting both her activism...
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K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre (Auditorium)
32 University Ave
Wolfville , NS
B4P 1X9

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Sep
30
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
4:00 PM to
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
10:00 PM
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Film Screening: Sugarcane; The Unforgotten; Indian Horse

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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University
4pm - screening of Indian Horse. Indian Horse, an adaptation of Ojibway writer Richard Wagamese's award-winning novel, this profoundly-moving drama sheds light on the dark history of Canada's "Indian Residential "schools"" and the indomitable spirit of Indigenous peoples. 6pm - screening of...
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K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre (Auditorium)
32 University Ave
Wolfville , NS
B4P 1X9

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Oct
01
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
6:00 PM to
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
9:00 PM
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Film Screening: Jordan River Anderson; Hi-Ho Mistahey

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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University
6:00pm screening of Jordan River Anderson Jordan River Anderson documentary film profiles Jordan River Anderson, a young boy from the Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba whose permanent lifelong hospitalization caused a political fight between the provincial and federal governments over the cost of...
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15 University Avenue
K.C. Irving Centre Auditorium
Wolfville , NS
B4P 2R6

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Oct
02
Thursday, October 2, 2025
6:00 PM to
Thursday, October 2, 2025
9:00 PM
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Film Screening: Yintah & Elsipogtog: The Fire Over Water

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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University
6pm screening of Yintah Spanning more than a decade, the film "Yintah" follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands. 8pm screening of Elsipogtog: The Fire Over Water "Elsipogtog: The Fire Over Water" focuses on Mi’kmaq...
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15 University Avenue
K.C. Irving Centre Auditorium
Wolfville , NS
B4P 2R6

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Oct
03
Friday, October 3, 2025
6:00 PM to
Friday, October 3, 2025
10:00 PM
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Film Screening: Two Worlds Colliding & Nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up

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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University
6pm - Two Worlds Colliding Two Worlds Colliding presents what came to be known as Saskatoon's infamous “Starlight Tours”, and the schism between a fearful, mistrustful Indigenous community and a police force harbouring a harrowing secret. 7:30pm - Nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up Nîpawistamâsowin...
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15 University Avenue
K.C. Irving Centre Auditorium
Wolfville , NS
B4P 2R6

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Oct
04
Saturday, October 4, 2025
2:00 PM — 4:00 PM
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Film Screening: Finding Dawn

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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University
2:00pm screening of Finding Dawn Finding Dawn by acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh brings us a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy – the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Everyone is welcome and all the film screenings are free.
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10 Highland Avenue
Beveridge Arts Centre - Room 132
Wolfville , NS
B4P 2R6

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