WILFRED BUCK
Lisa Jackson | Canada 2024 | 97 min. | English, Cree with engl. subtitles
SUNDAY, 11.05. | 4:30 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
Austrian premiere
‘The stars are a part of us and we are a part of them.’ When Wilfred Buck looks up at the night sky, he sees the wisdom of ancestral knowledge, traditions and the history of the Cree, a history of resistance to colonial oppression. Like Wilfred, whose life has been marked by marginalisation and exclusion, his community also finds healing for the wounds of the past in the cosmological whole. Today, as a spiritual leader, he passes on the traditional values and the knowledge of the ancestors to a new generation.
Lisa Jackson follows the free and creative spirit of this charismatic protagonist, creating a compelling work that oscillates between past and present, the earth and the stars, in order to overcome the ghosts of colonialism.
Director: Lisa Jackson
Camera: Justin Black (drama), Aaron Munson, Nicholas de Pencier, John Price
Editing: David Schmidt, Co-editors: Eui Yong Zong, Matt Lyon
Sound: David Rose
Production: Lisa Jackson, Lauren Grant, Alicia Smith
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
CPH:DOX – DOX: Award, Hot Docs Toronto, DOXA, Cervino CineMountain FF, Camden IFF, Santa Fe FF, Ethnofest Athens, Guelph FF, Solidarity IHRFF TLV, Indigenous peoples’ film festival Skábmagovat Finland, Tempo IDFF, Maoriland FF NZ, Trento Mountain FF, FICCI Cartagena 2025
DOXA Vancouver – Honourable Mention
Award “Mountains of the World” – Cervino Cine Mountain FF
BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Jackson is a Canadian Screen Award and Genie Award-winning Canadian and Anishinaabe filmmaker. Her films have been broadcast on APTN and Knowledge Network, as well as CBC’s ZeD, Canadian Reflections and Newsworld and have screened at festivals including HotDocs, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Melbourne, Worldwide Short Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival. She’s made more than 20 films, including multi-awarded shorts Savage (2009, Berlinale, SXSW), Intemperance (2014, Toronto IFF), Suckerfish (Hot Docs, Edinburgh IFF, Melbourne IFF). Her most recent film is Wilfred Buck.
