Atikamekw Suns
The film centres on the true story of five youths from the Atikamekw First Nation community of Manawan who were found dead in a truck in the nearby river in 1977, with police investigation remaining inconclusive to this day about whether the truck driving into the river was a simple accident or a racially-motivated attack.The film received production funding from Quebec's Société de développement des entreprises culturelles in 2019,[2] and from Telefilm Canada in 2020.[4] The film was shortlisted for the 2023 Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award.[5] At the 2023 Festival du nouveau cinéma, it won the TV5 Public Prize for most popular francophone film.[6] At the 2023 Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, it won the Médiafilm Robert-Claude Bérubé Prize.