Overview
An incisive account of how a group of land defenders took on the Canadian government, gas companies and armed police to fight the construction of a major pipeline.
The Wet’suwet’en First Nation are used to fighting for their land – a territory they have lived on for centuries. Now they face the construction of two government-backed gas pipelines that would divide their villages and pollute the land. As the resistance devises ways to fight against police attempts to seize the land, their non-violent opposition is met by guns and oppressive force. Filmed over the course of a decade, Yintah (‘Land’) witnesses the activism and bravery of a people fighting for their rights. Resembling a real-life thriller, Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano’s urgent and compassionate film is a gripping record of indigenous resistance and an astute chronicle of the blurred lines between colonisation, capitalism and an escalating climate crisis.