Not all Indigenous cinema needs to be serious (The fascinating Mitzi Bearclaw)

The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw just so happens to be one of the stories we’re missing in cinema: It’s about a young Indigenous woman who, at 25, doesn’t always make the right choices. There are plenty of Indigenous stories and films that take on a host of serious subjects — poverty, alcoholism, land and water rights, boarding school trauma. But Mitzi is simply a coming-of-age story — and a fun watch.

 

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