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The System is Broken
An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s hard-partying and absentee parents distances her from that haven. Now an adult, sleeping on public benches, Winnipeg-based Aberdeen is in survival mode. The last remaining stable parts of her life begin slipping away — her reliable brother Boyd is ill and gives up Aberdeen’s grandkids to the foster care system. Then she loses her ID.Read moreLess
An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s hard-partying and absentee parents distances her from that haven. Now an adult, sleeping on public benches, Winnipeg-based Aberdeen is in survival mode. The last remaining stable parts of her life begin slipping away — her reliable brother Boyd is ill and gives up Aberdeen’s grandkids to the foster care system. Then she loses her ID.
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An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s hard-partying and absentee parents distances her from that haven. Now an adult, sleeping on public benches, Winnipeg-based Aberdeen is in survival mode. The last remaining stable parts of her life begin slipping away — her reliable brother Boyd is ill and gives up Aberdeen’s grandkids to the foster care system. Then she loses her ID.
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Gail MauriceAberdeen
Billy MerastyAlfred
Jennifer PodemskiGrace
Liam Stewart-KaniganRaven
Ryan Rajendra Black
Onalee AmesMaggie
Bradley SawatzkyMorris
Gabriel DanielsJarvisExplore the crew
- Director
- Ryan Cooper
- Director
- Eva Thomas
- Editor
- Nathalie Maccaroni
- Editor
- Sara Bulloch
- Writer
- Eva Thomas
- Writer
- Ryan Cooper
- Producer
- Ryan Cooper
- Producer
- Kathleen Easton
- Original Music Composer
- Justin Delorme