Yintah | Encounters SA International Doc Film Festival

Awards

Stockholm Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: Bronze Horse: Best Documentary

DOXA Documentary Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: Colin Low Award for Canadian Documentary: Best Canadian Director – Special Jury Mention

Canadian Screen Awards (2025) – Nominated: Best Sound Design in a Feature Length Documentary

Canadian Screen Awards (2025) – Nominated: Best Cinematography in a Feature Length Documentary

Canadian Screen Awards (2025) – Nominated: Best Original Music in a Feature Length Documentary

Red Nation Film Festival (2024) – Winner: Red Nation Film Award of Excellence: Best International Documentary Feature

Human International Documentary Film Festival (2025) – Winner: Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Award: International Competition

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards (2024) – Nominated: Rogers Award: Best Canadian Documentary

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2024) – Winner: Rogers Audience Choice Award

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2024) – Nominated: Land Sky Sea Award – Special Mention

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2024) – Winner: Audience Award: Top 20 Audience Favorites

Sheffield International Documentary Festival (2024) – Nominated: Grand Jury Award: International First Feature

Cinema for Peace Awards (2025) – Nominated: Cinema for Peace Dove for Justice

The Hague Movies that Matter Festival (2025) – Nominated: Activist Documentary Award

DOXA Documentary Film Festival (2024) – Winner: Elevate Award – Special Mention

10 PG
Feature
International

African Premiere

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The sprawling Wet’suwet’en territory in the western part of Canada is inhabited by five different clans. It is ‘unceded’ territory, never having been signed away by the Indigenous people who lived there before the Europeans colonised North America. Yintah follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, the leaders of two clans from the territory, as they struggle to prevent the Canadian government and fossil-fuel companies from building a pipeline across it. The two women spearhead the resistance bravely and with moving tenacity, but the standoff gradually becomes increasingly tense and violent. Yintah, which means ‘territory’, follows Freda and Molly over a 10-year period as they lead the defence of their land, their forests, and their water. Although scarred by a long history of institutional racism and abuse, they tirelessly confront oil workers, government representatives and the police. It’s an uneven battle, but they and the rest of Wet’suwet’en are not planning on giving up. Made with intimate access to its two leads and the communities they serve, Yintah is a raw, urgent and breathtakingly beautiful experience.

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Previous Festivals

DOXA Doc FF (2024)

Hot Docs Canadian Int’l Doc FF (2024)

Human Int’l Doc FF (2025)

Red Nation FF (2024)

Sheffield Int’l Doc FF (2024)

Stockholm Film Festival (2024)

The Hague Movies that Matter Festival (2025)