Rhymes For Young Ghouls  (2013)

Rhymes For Young Ghouls (Canada, 2013)

Directed by Jeff Barnaby (Mi'kmaq).

Director Jeff Barnaby’s visionary feature debut uses the tragic legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools as a leaping off point for a full-throttle revenge fantasy.  Alia, a young woman haunted by her mother’s suicide slings pot on the Mi’kmaq reservation to bribe a sociopathic Indian agent to keep her out of the reservation school.  But when a deal goes south, Alia is forced to fight for her freedom.

Producer: John Christou, Aisling Chin-Yee.  Screenwriter: Jeff Barnaby (Mi’kmaq).  Cinematographer: Michel St. Martin.  Editor: Jeff Barnaby, Mathieu Bélanger.  Cast: Devery Jacobs, Roseanne Supernault, Glen Gould, Arthur Holden, Mark Antony Krupa.

Blu-ray, color, 88 min.