Night Raiders (2021) on Netflix
In a dystopian North America, Cree mother Niska keeps her eleven-year-old daughter Waseese hidden in the woods. A trap injures the girl, and a drone drives them from their bus home.
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- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb5.3/102,124 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes82%
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Plot summary
The Regime, a military dictatorship, controls a North America damaged by war, and children belong to the state. Niska raises her eleven-year-old daughter Waseese in the woods, in a bus turned into a home. While Waseese is hunting she steps on a trap and badly hurts her leg, and that night a drone locates the bus, so the two canoe to a city still marked by war. There Niska insists Waseese cover her face; a boy Waseese meets is seized by Regime soldiers for being under eighteen. Niska's old friend Roberta offers shelter but says medicine for the leg is weeks away, and proposes handing the girl to the soldiers for medical care. As Waseese's condition worsens, Niska gives her up, and the girl enters a military academy.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Night Raiders (2021)
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- Goulet has described the film as inspired in part by the military response to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in 2016, and by Alfonso Cuarón's 2006 film Children of Men; it also functions in part as an allegory for the Indian residential school system.
- Night Raiders premiered commercially in October 2021 with the widest opening of any film by an indigenous director in Canadian film history.
