MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 2025
12-1:15PM PT / 1-2:15PM MT / 2-3:15PM CT / 3-4:15PM ET

On September 22nd, Land Justice Futures will be hosting a community discussion of the award-winning documentary SUGARCANE, a moving, cinematic portrait of a community reckoning with a groundbreaking investigation into abuse and death at an Indian residential school. If you are committed to accountability from Catholic/Christian institutions and repair with Indigenous communities, please invite your community members to watch the film with you and join us in conversation!

PLEASE NOTE: This event is not a screening of the film, but a community conversation guided by Land Justice Futures. Registrants will receive a special link to view the film at their own convenience. We ask that registrants watch the 1 hour 49 minute film in the weeks before the community discussion. After grounding in some shorter clips from the film, our time together will be used for processing the grief, injustice, and complexities of what happened as well as our collective responsibilities and actions needed for healing and repair moving forward. This event will not be recorded and registrants will not receive a replay, so please join live if you’d like to be part of the conversation!

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About Sugarcane & the Faith Community Screening Tour

In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada, sparking a national outcry and setting off searches across North America. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation, and abuse many Indigenous children experienced in these segregated boarding schools, at the hands of the Church and government, is coming to light. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, Sugarcane illuminates the heartbreak and beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma—bearing witness to painful, long-ignored truths and the love that endures within their families despite the revelation of genocide. Sugarcane has screened hundreds of times globally, throughout Indian Country, educational spaces, businesses and beyond, bringing communities together to support healing, correct the historical record, provoke dialogue, and seek accountability from the Church, government, and individuals.

This community conversation is part of the Sugarcane Faith Community Screening Tour, developed in partnership with LJF, which increases access to the film for faith communities to use as a tool to better understand the many violent generational impacts of Christian and Catholic-run Native boarding schools on Indigenous communities—impacts which continue to this day. The Faith Community Screening Tour offers free, in-person screenings of the film to communities of faith to support conversations around truth and reconciliation. The goal of this program is to encourage Catholics, and Christians more broadly, to convene discussions focused on shared understanding, courage, and repair. Each attendee at this screening will receive information about hosting a screening of their own. Visit https://sugarcanefilm.com/faith-tour/ for more information.