Guest(s) expected to be in attendance at the September 29 screening.

Note: The Sept. 30 screening is Pay What You Can, with any donation (minus credit card fees) going to USAY (Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth).

For 26 years, the ooligan have not returned to the Bella Coola River. From a ramshackle trailer, Nuxalk Radio opens the case and what the airwaves reveal reaches far beyond the fish: settler tapes, buried declarations, a land claim filed the very day smallpox arrived. As the broadcasts pull back the layers, the ancestors stir alongside the living. A family returns to a village emptied for a century and when the trespass notice comes, they keep building. A Nuxalk biologist dreams the fish are coming home. Beneath the river's surface, something is already moving.

Through testimony, watercolour animation, and rare archival footage, director Banchi Hanuse (AITAMAAKO'TAMISSKAPI NATOSI: BEFORE THE SUN, CIFF 2023) weaves a story of survival, return and the quiet revolution of a Nation that refuses to disappear.