HOLY ANGELS
Directed by Jay Cardinal Villeneuve · 2017
A residential school survivor recalls being taken from her family as a child in 1963, told through impressionistic images and a child's fragmented voice.
A poetic, haunting survivor's account of Canada's residential schools that moves from trauma toward healing.
In 1963, Lena Wandering Spirit became one of the more than 150,000 Indigenous children who were removed from their families and sent to residential school. Jay Cardinal Villeneuve’s short documentary Holy Angels powerful
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