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NFB Indigenous and northern stories, diverse works, featured online in Canada Available Light Film Festival presents 18 NFB films-including the Northern premiere of Arctic Song

For its 20th anniversary edition, the Available Light Film Festival (ALFF) in Yukon is featuring 18 films by National Film Board of Canada (NFB) creators, including a powerful selection of Inuit, First Nations, Metis and northern works. Due to COVID-19, these films will be presented online February 11 to 28, 2022, available throughout Canada.

Elle-Maija Tailfeathers doc looks at harm-reduction strategy in Kainai First Nation

Conventional abstinence-based treatment has not been effective in saving lives, says Tailfeathers, and so the grief-stricken Blackfoot community turned to a harm-reduction strategy in recent years. As Tailfeathers documentary Kimmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy shows, that shift in strategy saved lives, in part through supervised consumption and the Blackfoot practice known as kimmapiiyipitssini – pronounced GEE-maa-bee-bit-sin and meaning giving kindness to each other. Tailfeathers said many on the reserve initially weren t open to the concept of harm reduction, which doesn t necessarily require users to abstain. Some felt methods such as opioid agonist therapy, which treats addiction through medications, were a form of enabling.

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