Event
Movie Night: Beans
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Petty Auditorium
After watching the film, share your questions and comments in a discussion with Chris and Sharon.
Writer/director Tracey Deer lived through the 1990 Oka Crisis--a land dispute between the Mohawk communities and the town Oka in Quebec, Canada--when she was 12. She knew that someday she would tell her version of those events on film.
We see a young girl experience for the first time the ugliness of bigotry and more, and then decide how she’ll become her own type of activist.
Starring Kiawentiio, Rainbow Dickerson, Violah Beauvais, and Paulina Alexis. Written and directed by Tracey Deer.
2020 -- 92 minutes -- Not rated -- Drama
The screening in the Petty Auditorium will be followed by a brief discussion in the Radmacher Room.
Find Beans in the library catalog.
Registration begins September 1.