A boy learns a lesson not to run off on his mother, and not everything is what it seems.

Based on the play of the same name by Kenneth T. Williams, and inspired by true events, Café Daughter is a coming-of-age story about Yvette Wong, a young Chinese Cree girl in 1960s Saskatchewan, who explores and embraces her Cree identity after the passing of her mother. This screening is supported by Telefilm.

WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) explores how children of Indian Residential School survivors — including three generations of director Dr. Jules Koostachin’s own family — are moving beyond the burden of intergenerational trauma and into healing.

The imagineNATIVE Institute welcomes APTN Lumi, along with past participants of the imagineNATIVE + APTN Lumi Web Series Pitch, to the Industry Days stage for the premiere of Tales From the Rez and D dot H. This screening will be followed by a moderated Q&A where the Artists will discuss the motivation behind and the creation of their projects.