Lessons From the Land: the New Canadians Centre and ReFrame invite you to reflect on relationships with the land, July 1-14.

Call Me Human - An intimate portrait of Innu poet Joséphine Bacon

Trick or Treaty? - A community fights to enforce their treaty rights and protect their lands, while also revealing the complexities of contemporary treaty agreements.

Call Me Human Film Description

There is no Innu word for "poetry", notes Josephine Bacon at the beginning of Kim O’Bomsawin’s enchanting, affectionate and transporting portrait of the septuagenarian writer, filmmaker, translator and poet. "I don’t think we needed one. We were poets simply by living in harmony with the water and the land."

Bacon published her first volume of poems in 2009, and is already recognized as one of the most important Montreal writers. O’Bomsawin enjoys a deep rapport with her gregarious subject, who recounts her life primarily through celebrating the friendships she found along the way. Her words – and O’Bomsawin’s layered and lovely images – convey just how precious a gift this is. It’s an irresistible film.