The ImagineNATIVE Film Festival is to screen in all 80 film and video works from Canada and internationally, including a world premiere for We Were Children, a Cree, English and French language film about residential school survivors by director Tim Wolochatiuk.

Also booked into the festival is Michael Melski’s thriller Charlie Zone, which stars Glen Gould, the Tibetan-language documentary Dung, about China, from director Lance No, and Honghau Cao’s The Grandmother’s House Away from Home, a  Mandarin and Mosuo language film.

And ImagineNATIVE has programmed Australian director Ivan Sen’s Toomelah, a take on Aboriginal youth, James Diamond’s The Man from Venus, and Danis Goulet’s Barefoot.

The festival already announced Alanis Obamsawin’s The People of the Kattiwapiskat River as the opening film, with Anita Doron’s The Lesser Blessed to close the 13th edition.

In all, ImagineNATIVE  has booked 24 world premieres and seven Canadian premieres.