Four Faces of the Moon: Trailer

An animated short exploring the reclamation of language and nationhood, while peeling back layers of Canada's colonial history. NOW STREAMING ON CBC GEM
A still from the film.

Full short documentary coming soon

Four Faces of the Moon is a stop-motion animation documentary exploring the reclamation of language and nationhood while peeling back layers of Canada's colonial history.

Told in four chapters through the eyes of director and writer Amanda Strong, the film connects the oral and written history of Strong's family as well as the history of the Metis, Cree and Anishnaabe People to the buffalo. Canada's extermination agenda on the buffalo isn't recorded as fervently as it was in the United States, yet the same tactics were used north of the border to control the original inhabitants of the land. This story uncovers some of that history and establishes the importance of cultural practice, resistance and language revival from a personal perspective. The moon, which holds great importance in Cree and Anishnaabe culture as a seasonal guide and a marker of change, drives the film, marking the passage of each chapter.