True north

Set against the backdrop of 1960s Montreal, ‘True north’ unearths two pivotal but underrecognized events, the Congress of Black Writers and the Sir George Williams Affair, positioning the city as a powerful nexus in the global Black liberation movement. Through never-before-seen archival footage and intimate first-person testimonies, the film revisits a charged era of resistance, where Black students and activists challenged institutional racism that sparked reverberations across the globe. Taking a hemispheric view of Black resistance, ‘True north’ connects threads from the Caribbean, Canada, and the US, tracing the shared legacies of colonialism and state oppression. Visually striking and emotionally resonant, ‘True north’ is a love letter to 1960s Montreal and a radical reimagining of its place in history. 

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