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Directed by Banchi Hanuse (Nuxalk) and created in collaboration with the Nuxalk community.

CEREMONY (2026)
Amid the vanished ooligan run in the remote village of Bella Coola, voices rise through the crackling airwaves of Nuxalk Radio as the missing species unearths buried truths of generational erasure and colonial disruption. Collective testimony, watercolour-animated ancestral lore, and rare archival immerse us in a Nuxalk worldview, an ongoing act of reclamation from a people refusing to disappear.

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