directed by: Myriam Verreault, year: 2019
actors: Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao, Etienne Galloy

Kuessipan is a lyrical, intimate drama following two young Innu women in a remote Quebec community as they navigate friendship, love, and the pressure to conform. The film tracks their evolving bond as gossip, jealousy, and a life-changing choice ripple through families and the wider community. Directed with a patient, observational eye by Myriam Verreault, it blends naturalistic performances with stark, sunlit landscapes and a restrained, poetic pace to illuminate resilience, identity, and belonging in a modern Indigenous world.

Tribal, Drama, Coming Of Age, Indigenous Cinema, Innu Culture, Quebec Cinema