Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
Acting
Kiawentiio's debut captures every micro-expression of hardening innocence.
Direction
Tracey Deer transforms lived Oka Crisis experience into intimate epic.
Practical Effects
Real Mohawk community members recreated 1990 blockade with documentary precision.
Director
Tracey Deer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tracey Deer was 12 during the actual Oka Crisis and based Beans' arc on her own diary entries from that summer.
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