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URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/calgary-international-film-festival/
SUMMARY:Calgary International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Wilfred Buck is screening two times at the Calgary Internationa
 l Film Festival!\n\nSunday September 22\, 1:30pm MDT\nContemporary Calgary
  Dome\n\nTickets\n\nSunday September 29\, 1:45pm MDT\nChinook 12\n\nTicket
 s\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nWILFRED BUCK - directed by Lisa Jackson (2024\, 96 mins)\n
 \nHe’s from the “fresh-out-of-the-bush\, partly civilized\, colonized\
 , displaced people\,” and he’s here to take us to the stars. Lisa Jack
 son’s portrait of Cree Elder Wilfred Buck moves between earth and sky\, 
 past and present\, bringing to life ancient teachings of Indigenous astron
 omy and cosmology to tell a story that spans generations. This hybrid feat
 ure documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck\, a charism
 atic and irreverent Cree Elder who overcame a harrowing yet familiar histo
 ry of displacement\, racism and addiction by reclaiming ancestral star kno
 wledge and ceremony.\n\nBuck is humble\, profound\, funny\, always real an
 d a master storyteller. As a young man\, his community in Northern Manitob
 a is forcibly relocated to make way for a hydroelectric dam\, Buck’s fam
 ily loses everything. He descends into the darkness of the city streets\, 
 surviving any way he can\, until he reconnects with Elders who start him o
 n a path that transforms his world.  Driven by insatiable curiosity and i
 nstructed by dreams\, Buck becomes a science educator and internationally 
 respected star lore expert. His mission is sharing these life-changing tea
 chings—as relevant and urgent today as ever—always guided by ceremony 
 and anchored in the land.\n\nAdapted from Buck’s rollicking memoir I Ha
 ve Lived Four Lives\, director Lisa Jackson deftly interweaves verité foo
 tage of Buck’s present with archival footage and cinematic\, dramatized 
 scenes from his past\, painting a portrait of a beloved leader who now sta
 nds at the forefront of the resurgence of Indigenous ways of knowing.\n\n&
 nbsp\;\n\n[embed]https://vimeo.com/942488273[/embed]\n\n&nbsp\;
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CATEGORIES:Festivals,Paid Event,Wilfred Buck
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