''Falls Around Her'' is a 2018 Canadian drama film, directed by

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."Falls Around Her opens imagineNATIVE"
''Northern Stars'', August 28, 2018. The film stars

Tantoo Cardinal Tantoo Cardinal CM (born Rose Marie Cardinal; July 20, 1950) is a Canadian actress of Cree and Métis heritage. In 2009, she was made a member of the Order of Canada "for her contributions to the growth and development of Aboriginal performing ar ...

as Mary Birchbark, an internationally famous

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musician who returns to her home community to recharge and reevaluate her life, only to find that her fame is not so easily left behind. The cast also includes

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and J.D. Nicholsen. The film was shot on the

Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation Atikameksheng Anishnawbek (Anishinaabe language: ''Adikamegosheng Anishinaabeg'', syncoped as ''Dikmegsheng Nishnaabeg''), formerly known as the Whitefish Lake First Nation, is an Ojibway First Nation in northern Ontario, Canada. Its reserve i ...

reserve near Sudbury,

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. Despite Cardinal's long and distinguished career as an actress, ''Falls Around Her'' was her first-ever starring role as the main protagonist in a film. The film premiered at the

2018 Toronto International Film Festival The 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure that at least 20 percent of all film critics and journalists given press accreditation to ...

. It subsequently screened as the opening gala of the

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is the world's largest Indigenous film and media arts festival, held annually in Toronto in the month of October. The festival focuses on the film, video, radio, and new media work of Indigenous, Abori ...

in October, where it won the Air Canada Audience Choice Award. It opened commercially in April 2019."Indigenous actress Tantoo Cardinal shows her talents in two good movies opening Friday"
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'', March 28, 2019.

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