Along the Winisk River

Nominated for Best Documentary Short

Along the Winisk River

Directed by Janna Kyllästinen - In Canada, a remote Indigenous community is fighting for its survival in the age of climate change. Extreme weather, changes in ice formation, and wildfires have made hunting and gathering for traditional food more and more dangerous and difficult. Along the Winisk River is a portrait of a community as it comes together to embark on a caribou hunt in the freezing subarctic winter of Canada. The film explores the impacts of this struggle against a backdrop of systemic discrimination and calls for the government of Canada to do better to protect Indigenous communities.

Along the Winisk River is included in the Climate: Program 2 and it screens with Native Wisdom - The Peoples of Eastern Oregon