After earning raves following its debut at TIFF, the first trailer for “Beans” has arrived and ET Canada has your exclusive first look.
Nominated for Best Picture at the Canadian Screen Awards, “Beans” is a coming-of-age tale set during the 78-day Oka Crisis in Quebec in 1990. “Inspired by true events,” the film follows a Mohawk girl named Tekehentahkhwa (Kiawentiio), better known as Beans.
Beans and her younger sister Ruby (Violah Beauvais) spend their days playing in the woods and avoiding the tough kids on the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawà:ke.
Beans’ parents (Rainbow Dickerson and Joel Montgrand) are at odds over her future, disagreeing whether Beans should leave the reserve to attend high school while the young teen herself isn’t brave
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