Cinema International is part of Murray State University’s educational mission and hosts a post-screening discussion for every film. Admission is free. All screenings are in Faculty Hall 208 at 7:30pm.

“Sugarcane.” Canada/US, 2024.

Directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat. Starring Willie Sellars, Charlene Belleau, and Whitney Spearing.

In English and Secwepemctsín with English subtitles. NR, 107 minutes.

In this documentary, indigenous community members in British Columbia launch an investigation into the unmarked graves at St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School. The quest for truth is personal for co-director Julian Brave NoiseCat, whose own father was victimized by the school; the film is part of Canada’s national reckoning over state-sponsored violence against First Nations people. Presented with the support of the Department of English and Philosophy.