''Katshinau'' (, lit. "Dirty Hands") is a Canadian short drama film, directed by
Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush and
Julien G. Marcotte, and released in 2023. The film stars
Soleil Launière
Soleil Launière is an Innu writer, actress, performance artist and musician from Canada, who was the first Indigenous Canadian artist ever to win the Francouvertes competition for emerging musicians from Quebec.
A member of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh ...
as Marie, an
indigenous
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*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology)
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slave in
New France
New France (, ) was the territory colonized by Kingdom of France, France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Kingdom of Great Br ...
who is driven to undertake radical actions to secure her freedom.
The cast also includes Fred-Eric Salvail, Geneviève Boivin-Roussy, Dorothée Gauthier Nolett, Ryan Bommarito, Benoît Mauffette and Adrien Lessard.
The film premiered at the
2023 Vancouver International Film Festival
The 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 42nd event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 28 to October 8, 2023.
Awards
Winners of the juried Canadian film awards were announced on Octob ...
, where it was named the winner of the award for Best Canadian Short Film.
The film was named to TIFF's annual
Canada's Top Ten
Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema". ''Welland Tribune'', November 23, ...
list for 2023.
[Pat Mullen]
"TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Includes BlackBerry, Solo, Humanist Vampire"
''That Shelf'', December 6, 2023.
References
External links
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2023 films
2023 short films
Canadian drama short films
First Nations films
2020s Canadian films
Quebec films
Films about slavery
French-language Canadian films
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