When a group of students at Columbia University in New York City launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
This film takes us back to the origins of two major revolutions: the rapid expansion of Hydro-Québec with the construction of the La Grande complex, and the awakening of the Indigenous nations of Northern Quebec.
Assembled from archives filmed in Egypt and Palestine in 2000, Momentum reflects on memory and place. It reveals the power of images to bear witness, then and now, even as the world moves on.
YINTAH, meaning “land” in the Wet’suwet’en language, tells the story of an Indigenous nation asserting sovereignty. It is the story of the Wet’suwet’en people reoccupying their territory and resisting the construction of multiple pipelines.