{{Short description|2023 Canadian documentary film}} {{Infobox film | name = WaaPaKe | image = | caption = Film poster | director = Jules Arita Koostachin | producer = Teri Snelgrove | writer = Jules Arita Koostachin | starring = | music = Justin Delorme | cinematography = Michael Bourquin | editing = Jessica Dymond | studio = National Film Board of Canada | distributor = | runtime = 80 minutes | released = {{film date|2023|10|01|VIFF}} | country = Canada | language = English | budget = }} '''''WaaPaKe''''' ("Tomorrow") is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jules Arita Koostachin and released in 2023.<ref name=lewis>Haley Lewis, [https://rock101.com/news/9984780/waapake-documentary-intergenerational-residential-schools/ "'I understand the pain': Film explores residential schools' intergenerational impacts"]{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}. CFMI-FM, September 26, 2023.</ref> The film explores the intergenerational impacts that the Canadian Indian residential school system has continued to have on generations of indigenous people who were not themselves students in the system, but have still been deeply scarred by it because of its effects on their parents and grandparents.<ref>Raynee Novak, [https://www.straight.com/movies/review-waapake-tomorrow-uses-traditions-to-overcome-trauma "Review: “WaaPaKe (Tomorrow)” uses traditions to overcome trauma"]. ''The Georgia Straight'', September 29, 2023.</ref>
The film is based in part on Koostachin's own family story, featuring testimony by Koostachin herself, her mother Rita and her son Asivak, about the lingering effects of the residential school system on their family life, and is dedicated to the memory of her brother Steven; however, it also includes interviews with other people who have been impacted by the legacy of residential schools, including other children of survivors and social workers who work with them to confront and heal trauma.<ref>Pat Mullen, [https://povmagazine.com/waapake-review-healing-for-a-better-tomorrow/ "WaaPaKe Review: Healing for a Better Tomorrow"]. ''Point of View'', October 4, 2023.</ref>
The film premiered in the Insights program at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival.<ref name=lewis/>
==Awards== It was a nominee for the Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2023 Directors Guild of Canada awards,<ref>Taimur Sikander Mirza, [https://playbackonline.ca/2023/09/20/women-talking-leads-film-nominees-for-2023-dgc-awards/ "Women Talking leads film nominees for 2023 DGC Awards"]. ''Playback'', September 20, 2023.</ref> and won the award for Best British Columbia Film at VIFF.<ref>V.S. Wells, [https://www.straight.com/movies/viff-announces-canadian-film-award-winners "VIFF announces Canadian film award winners"]. ''The Georgia Straight'', October 5, 2023.</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|29267236}} {{Residential schools in Canada}}
Category:2023 films Category:2023 documentary films Category:Canadian documentary films Category:Documentary films about First Nations in Canada Category:National Film Board of Canada documentaries Category:Documentary films about residential schools in Canada Category:2023 English-language films Category:2023 Canadian films Category:English-language documentary films Category:English-language Canadian films Category:Algonquian peoples in popular culture
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