Sugarcane (film)

Sugarcane is a 2024 documentary film, directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie and produced by Emily Kassie and Kellen Quinn. It follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system, igniting a reckoning in the lives of survivors and descendants.

It had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2024 where it won the Grand Jury award for Directing. It is scheduled to be theatrically released in limited engagements in the United States and Canada on August 9, 2024, before gradually expanding to other cities starting August 16, by National Geographic Documentary Films through Variance Films in the United States and Films We Like in Canada.

Premise
It follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system, igniting a reckoning in the lives of survivors and descendants.

Production
The film received grants from Catapult Film Fund and the International Documentary Association Enterprise Fund.

Release
It had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2024. In February 2024, National Geographic Documentary Films acquired distribution rights to the film. A release plan would later be announced for the documentary that would see it screened in exclusive engagements at the Film Forum in Manhattan and TIFF Lightbox in Toronto starting August 9, 2024, followed by the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles starting August 16; an expansion to other cities in the United States and Canada will gradually take place starting August 16. Variance Films and Films We Like serve as co-distributors in the United States and Canada respectively.