Kim O’Bomsawin’s Ninan Auassat: We, the Children s creening in Montreal starting February 7

January 16, 2025 – Montreal – National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

Abenaki filmmaker Kim O’Bomsawin’s feature-length documentary Ninan Auassat: Nous, les enfants (Ninan Auassat: We, the Children), produced by the NFB, hits theatres in Montreal on Friday, February 7, screening at the Cinéma du Musée with English subtitles and the Cinémathèque Québécoise in its original version.

A moving film that gives Indigenous youth the opportunity to speak for themselves, Ninan Auassat won the Tides Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) and the Magnus Isacsson Award at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) in fall 2024.

About the film

Ninan Auassat: Nous, les enfants (Ninan Auassat: We, the Children) by Kim O’Bomsawin (93 min)
Produced at the NFB by Mélanie Brière, Nathalie Cloutier and Colette Loumède
Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/ninan_auassat_en

Ninan Auassat celebrates the power and vitality of Indigenous youth. Shot over more than six years, the film brings us the moving stories of three groups of children from three different Indigenous nations—Atikamekw, Eeyou Cree and Innu. Filmed from “a child’s eye-view” and without adult voices and “experts” on young people, the film reveals the dreams of a new generation poised to take flight.

About the filmmaker

Kim O’Bomsawin is an award-winning Abenaki documentary filmmaker and sociologist who’s deeply passionate about sharing the stories of Indigenous Peoples. Her recent credits include the feature-length documentary Call Me Human (Je m’appelle Humain), honoured at the Gémeaux Awards in 2020, and her series Telling Our Story, shown in TIFF’s Primetime program in 2023.

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