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Berlin Hidden Gem: Dystopian Thriller 'Night Raiders' Uses the Sci-Fi Genre to Confront Canada's Troubled Past

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Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders, executive produced by Oscar-winning Jojo Rabbit writer-director Taika Waititi, is no typical sci-fi thriller.

An entry in this year’s Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section and Goulet’s feature debut, the film flips the genre on its head by using the future to confront Canada’s past colonization and subjugation of its First Nation peoples. "I found it incredibly liberating and a lot of fun.

You’re really not constrained by reality," Goulet tells THR about her bleak dystopian tale of a Cree woman, played by actress-directorElle-Máijá Tailfeathers, who joins underground vigilantes known as night raiders to free her daughter (Brooklyn Letexier-Hart) from an oppressive state school run by a dominant "far-right.

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