BEANS

BEANS

Beans. Canada 2020. Director: Tracey Deer. Screenplay:  Tracey Deer, Meredith Vuchnich. 92 Min. Feature film. OV w/Eng. sub and Ger. voice-over. Suitable from age 12. Recommended from age 12.

COMING OF AGE STORY SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF POLITICAL TURMOIL OVER THE DISPLACEMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

The nick­na­me Beans actual­ly stands for Tekahentahkhwa. The shel­te­red 12-year-old girl grows up near Quebec. Beans’ per­fect world is shat­te­red when con­flicts ari­se bet­ween the Mohawk com­mu­ni­ty and the neigh­bor­ing town of Oka, which wants to con­s­truct a buil­ding on an indi­ge­nous ceme­tery. Peaceful pro­tests are met with racist vio­lence, stones and fired shots. Beans no lon­ger under­stands the world. How is she sup­po­sed to deal with all this cha­os? Based on her own expe­ri­en­ces, the direc­tor tells the indi­vi­du­al and poli­ti­cal self-asser­ti­on of a girl who, against the back­drop of the 1990 Oka cri­sis, sud­den­ly must grow up far too quickly.

Available in cine­mas | via Video-on-Demand (VoD) exclu­si­ve­ly for school clas­ses and groups

FR, 1.10. | 10:30 a.m. | Cinéma
TU, 5.10. | 9 a.m. | DFF Cinema
WE, 6.10. | 9 a.m. | Kino im Hafen 2 

Extras und Mitmischen!

LUCAS im Kino

Film talks

LUCAS im Kino

Educational material

Filmography

2020 BEANS | 2019 ANNE WITH AN E (S3E4) | 2010–2017 MOHAWK GIRLS

Biography

Tracy Deer is a Canadian film­ma­ker. She recei­ved num­e­rous awards, inclu­ding the TIFF Birks Diamond Tribute Award for the series MOHAWAK GIRLS, which she direc­ted. Deer is chair­wo­man of the Board of Women in View, a non-pro­fit women’s equa­li­ty orga­niza­ti­on in the Canadian media sector.

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