Beans
Rainbow Dickerson, Kiawentiio
Beans by Tracey Deer
CAN 2020, Generation
© Sébastien Raymond
Kiawentiio
Beans by Tracey Deer
CAN 2020, Generation
© Sébastien Raymond
Rainbow Dickerson, Kiawentiio
Beans by Tracey Deer
CAN 2020, Generation
© Sébastien Raymond
Kiawentiio, Rainbow Dickerson
Beans by Tracey Deer
CAN 2020, Generation
© Sébastien Raymond
Her name is Tekahentahkhwa, but everyone calls her Beans. Full of confidence, the twelve-year-old Mohawk girl is pursuing her dream of getting accepted into the renowned Queen Heights Academy. Yet with the outbreak of the Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada in the summer of 1990, her world is turned upside down. The media is filled with reports of the Mohawk people‘s fight for their rights, their peaceful protests answered with racial violence. Roadblocks are erected. There are deaths and injuries. In the face of all this, Beans becomes even more passionately engaged in her people’s struggle – especially once she comes under the influence of April, a tough older girl from her community. Interspersed with archival footage, this unequivocally political film tells a story of personal and social emancipation.
With
- Kiawentiio (Beans, Tekahentahkhwa)
- Rainbow Dickerson (Lily)
- Violah Beauvais (Ruby)
- Paulina Alexis (April)
- D’Pharaoh McKay Woon-A-Tai (Hank)
Crew
| Director | Tracey Deer |
| Screenplay | Tracey Deer, Meredith Vuchnich |
| Cinematography | Marie Davignon |
| Editing | Sophie Farkas Bolla |
| Music | Mario Sévigny |
| Sound Design | Sylvain Bellemare |
| Sound | Yann Cleary |
| Production Design | André Chamberland |
| Costumes | Éric Poirier |
| Make-Up | Drew McComber |
| Casting | Maxime Giroux, René Haynes |
| Assistant Director | Pierre Plante |
| Production Manager | Geoffroy S. Patenaude |
| Producer | Anne-Marie Gélinas |
| Executive Producers | Meredith Vuchnich, Justine Whyte |
World Sales
WaZabi Films
Produced by
The Children’s Jury in the Competition Generation Kplus 2021
Beans · Generation · Freiluftkino Hasenheide · Jun 15, 2021
Nola Strunk, Jarik Richter, Julius Marx
The Children’s Jury in the Competition Generation Kplus 2021 at the presentation of the Crystal Bear for Best Film.
Beans · Generation · Freiluftkino Hasenheide · Jun 15, 2021
Jarik Richter, Nola Strunk, Julius Marx
The award certificate for the winning film is signed by the jurors.
Beans · Generation · Freiluftkino Hasenheide · Jun 15, 2021
Jarik Richter
The juror prepares for his appearance on stage.
Beans · Generation · Freiluftkino Hasenheide · Jun 15, 2021
Concentration at the award ceremony.
Beans · Generation · Freiluftkino Hasenheide · Jun 15, 2021
Maryanne Redpath
The section head at the award presentation of the Crystal Bear for the Best Film.
Beans · Generation · Freiluftkino Hasenheide · Jun 15, 2021
Jarik Richter
The juror of the Children’s Jury in Generation Kplus on stage.
Beans · Generation · Freiluftkino Hasenheide · Jun 15, 2021
Tracey Deer
The director, who also co-wrote the screenplay, was unable to travel to Berlin to receive her Crystal Bear for Best Film in person, but thanked the jury and audience via video message.
Beans · Generation · Freiluftkino Hasenheide · Jun 15, 2021
Tracey Deer
Beans
Generation · Berlinale Meets | Interview · Feb 15, 2021
Tracey Deer
The director has won several prizes for her work, including two Gemini Awards and the Birks Diamond Tribute Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her series Mohawk Girls, for which she was co-creator, director and co-showrunner, has been nominated four times in a row for a Canadian Screen Award. Deer is chair of the board of directors of Women in View, a non-profit organisation that advocates for greater diversity and gender parity in Canadian media. She has also been a mentor on a number of talent development programmes, especially for emerging Indigenous filmmakers.
Filmography
2004 One More River: The Deal That Split the Cree; documentary 2005 Mohawk Girls; documentary 2008 Kanien’keha:ka: Living the Language; documentary · Club Native; documentary 2009 Finding Our Talk; documentary series, season 3, 1 episode 2010 Mohawk Girls; series 2011 Working It Out Together; documentary series, seasons 1-2 2014 Cashing In; series, season 4, 1 episode 2020 Beans
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2021