Freedom Road: Women / Ikwewag (2019)
• January 1st, 2019 • 0h 12min
Documentary
Overview
Shoal Lake 40 women talk about their struggles, and those of their parents and grandparents, in trying to raise their families in a hazardous state of enforced isolation. Everyone in the community has a harrowing story of a loved one falling through the ice while trying to get across the lake, with pregnant women and new mothers fearing for their babies and having no choice but to make the trek in dangerous conditions. The film shows the key role of the community’s women in demanding funding for the road from three levels of government, and how their reconnection to culture and ceremony give them the strength to keep going.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
back home
Released on: 2022-09-30
Documentary
In 1999, 11-year-old Nisha Platzer lost her older brother, Josh, to suicide. Twenty years later, her...
Within Reach
Released on: 2013-10-13
Documentary
Documentary, Biographical Documentaries, Social & Cultural Documentaries, Travel & Adventure Documen...
For Love
Released on: 2022-09-21
Documentary
In this searing documentary, Indigenous people share heartbreaking stories that reveal the injustice...
The Ants and the Grasshopper
Released on: 2021-05-26
Documentary
Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight fo...
My Foreign Land
Released on: 2025-04-05
Documentary
For the Suruí, an indigenous people in western Brazil, there was a lot at stake in the 2022 presiden...
Advanced Television Production - 5 Days, 2 Scripts, No Sleep
Released on: 2014-08-05
Documentary
The writer's room during the production of the fifth season of Community struggles with time while t...
Instagram Is
Released on: 2013-05-24
Documentary
In a culture immersed in technology, Instagram is reviving adventure, face to face community and rea...
Welcome Home Freckles
Released on: 2025-03-09
Documentary, Family, Drama
After four years away, Huiju returns home to South Korea. Exchanges with her loved ones are awkward ...
Rewinding Dominoes
Released on: 2025-03-07
Documentary, Animation
In her attempt to escape her past, Huiju relocated to the UK over 11 months ago. However, even after...
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Released on: 2005-11-04
Documentary
This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families s...
Madwoman of God
Released on: 2008-01-01
History, Documentary
This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de l’Incarnation, a mid-sevent...
Eagle Boy
Released on: 2018-08-05
Documentary
A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.
Invasion
Released on: 2019-11-01
Documentary
In this era of "reconciliation", Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new...
Women in the Shadows
Released on: 1991-01-01
Documentary, History
Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces ...
Les filles c’est pas pareil
Released on: 1973-03-08
Documentary
In this feature-length documentary, six teenage girls, aged 14 to 16, agree to open up and have thei...
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
Released on: 1985-11-01
Documentary
Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow ...
Trick or Treaty?
Released on: 2014-09-04
Documentary
Legendary Canadian documentarian Alanis Obomsawin digs into the tangled history of Treaty 9 — the in...
Keep Talking
Released on: 2017-03-16
Documentary
Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the fut...
Black Pénélope
Released on: 1991-09-25
Documentary
A discovery of the pictorial art that Ndebele women traditionally practice in South Africa: painting...