''Broken Angel'' ( cr, MaaShwaKan MaNiTo) is a Canadian drama film, directed by
Jules Arita Koostachin and released in 2022.
[Jennifer Francis]
"Regina-born actor stars in Indigenous movie about domestic abuse, survival"
CBC News Indigenous, October 26, 2022. The film stars
Sera-Lys McArthur as Angel, an indigenous woman who undertakes a journey of spiritual and emotional recovery after taking her daughter Tanis (Brooklyn Letexier-Hart) and fleeing an abusive relationship with her husband Earl (Carlo Marks) to return to her home community.
The cast also includes
Jessie Anthony, Isla Grant,
Asivak Koostachin Asivak Koostachin (born 1994) is a Cree-Inuk actor from Canada, most noted for his performances in the films ''Red Snow'' and '' Run Woman Run''.
The son of filmmaker Jules Arita Koostachin, he had his first major acting role in the APTN drama se ...
, Blu Mankuma and
Quanah Style.
The script was inspired in part by women that Jules Arita Koostachin had met and worked with in her prior career in social services.
[ It features dialogue in both English and ]Cree
The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada ...
, and entered production in November 2021 in British Columbia.
The film had its theatrical premiere at the 2022 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, and screened in the Borsos Competition at the 2022 Whistler Film Festival.
The film was longlisted for the Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award at the 2022 Directors Guild of Canada awards."JEAN-MARC VALLÉE DGC DISCOVERY AWARD LONG LIST DROPS AT VISIONARIES"
. '' Yahoo! Movies'', September 11, 2022.
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2022 films
2022 drama films
Canadian drama films
First Nations films
Films shot in British Columbia
English-language Canadian films
Cree-language films
2020s French-language films
2020s Canadian films
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