Live screening 7 30 pm EDT. Q & A LIVE with Director /Writer Lisa Jackson, Wilfred Buck, subject of the film, on Zoom TBC.

An elderly member of the indigenous Cree people of Canada is our spiritual guide in a film that, like its charismatic protagonist, moves between past and present, and between Earth and the stars, to overcome the ghosts of colonisation. His name is He Has Dreamt a Dream and Keeps It, but most know him as Wilfred Buck, the Star Man. In his own words, he is “of the fresh-out-of-the-bush, partly civilized, colonized, displaced people.” A charismatic Cree Elder with a sly wit, Wilfred is known for collecting the knowledge of Cree astronomy and sharing it across generations. His teachings have taken him from lecture halls to sweat lodges, transcending the boundaries of Western science. Intimate yet expansive, Wilfred Buck is a time-travelling road trip through a harrowing history of displacement and racism, from growing up in 1960s Northern Manitoba to Wilfred’s reconnection with the cosmological wisdom of his people. 

Debwewin: The Oakville Truth Project Exhibition will be available in the lobby.

Moderator: Tyler Collins 

Partners: Sheridan College, Film.ca Cinemas.