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
One Big Home
Released on: 2017-07-14
Documentary
On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes thr...
Mevrouw Faber
Released on: 2019-09-28
Documentary
In the early eighties, the tough trucker Harm married the shy, country girl Siepie. Thirty years lat...
We Can Be Heroes
Released on: 2024-03-08
Documentary
Sometimes, finding your tribe requires a bit of magic. For attendees of a live action role-playing (...
Club Native
Released on: 2008-10-16
Documentary
With moving stories from a range of characters from her Kahnawake Reserve, Mohawk filmmaker, Tracey ...
Xadalu e o Jaguaretê
Released on: 2019-09-26
Documentary
Documentary that accompanies the exchange between the mestizo urban artist Xadalu and the filmmaker ...
Praia da Saudade
Released on: 2024-01-11
Documentary
A documentary about climate change in Brazil, especially at Atafona Beach (in the Campos de Goytacaz...
For the Love of Cats
Released on: 2025-03-08
Documentary
In the small mountain town of Barga, Italy, a group of four filmmakers speak with local cat lovers a...
Micropubs - The New Local
Released on: 2020-12-16
Documentary
Inspired by the original micropub craze in Kent, three entrepreneurial Londoners decide to open 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 ...
Whisper to be Heard
Released on: 2020-04-16
Documentary, Music
A group of musicians who have never met get together for a week to live in a mansion to write an alb...
maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
Released on: 2020-01-26
Documentary
An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwes...
The Invention of the Other
Released on: 2022-11-19
Documentary
In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decade...
Baraka
Released on: 1992-09-15
Documentary
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that...
Mother Earth’s Inner Organs
Released on: 2022-11-09
Documentary
The first mountains that the Amsterdam-based Colombian artist and filmmaker Ana Bravo Pérez saw in t...
Natsik Hunting
Released on: 1975-01-01
Documentary
Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a relaxed, narration-f...
The Navel of the World
Released on: 2024-06-14
Documentary
“Te Pito o Te Henua” (The Navel of the World) tells the story of the community behind Rapa Nui’s lar...
Mother River
Released on: 2020-02-05
Documentary, Family, Drama
In a remote Peruvian city, lives Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent who sells ca...