''Our People Will Be Healed'' is a 2017

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

documentary film by

Alanis Obomsawin Alanis Obomsawin, (born August 31, 1932) is an Abenaki American Canadian filmmaker, singer, artist, and activist primarily known for her documentary films. Born in New Hampshire, United States and raised primarily in Quebec, Canada, she has wri ...

. The film premiered at the

2017 Toronto International Film Festival The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 September 2017. There were fourteen programmes, with the Vanguard and City to City programmes both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down b ...

. The film explores the

Helen Betty Osborne Helen Betty Osborne, or Betty Osborne (July 16, 1952 – November 13, 1971), was a Cree Aboriginal woman from Norway House reserve who was kidnapped and murdered while walking down Third Street in The Pas, Manitoba. Life Osborne was bor ...

Ininiw Education Resource Centre, an N-12

Frontier School Division Frontier School Division is the largest geographical school division in Manitoba, Canada, covering most schools in northern Manitoba. With 41 schools operating across Manitoba, the Frontier School Division provides educational services to a larger ...

school in

Norway House Norway House is a population centre of over 5,000 people, some north of Lake Winnipeg, on the bank of the eastern channel of Nelson River, in the province of Manitoba, Canada. The population centre shares the name ''Norway House'' with the north ...

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where Cree students are taught about their own history and culture alongside the regular Manitoba school curriculum. Obomsawin previously filmed at the school during the production of '' We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice'' to document the story of Jordan River Anderson, a Cree child whose death became the basis of Jordan's Principle, a federal government commitment to funding services for Indigenous children. Impressed by the school's success in helping to develop strong, healthy children, she decided to tell its story in a standalone film. The title, ''Our People Will Be Healed'' is a quote from someone interviewed in the film, and Obomsawin has said she sees a new optimism for Canadian Indigenous people. In December, TIFF named the film to its annual

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list of the ten best Canadian films. In 2021 the film was selected for inclusion in Celebrating Alanis, a retrospective program of Obomsawin's films at the

2021 Toronto International Film Festival The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the 46th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held from September 9 to 18, 2021.Barry Hertz"TIFF planning ‘substantially bigger’ 2021 film festival compared to last year’ ...

."Toronto Film Fest Unveils Platform Program Slate; Riz Ahmed To Head Jury"
''Shoot Online'', August 11, 2021.

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* 2017 films Canadian documentary films Films directed by Alanis Obomsawin Films shot in Manitoba 2017 documentary films Documentary films about education Education in Manitoba National Film Board of Canada documentaries First Nations education First Nations in Manitoba Cree culture 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-documentary-film-stub