Nuuca
Jul 02, 2018 | IMDB 7
13 min Watch NowDocumentary
In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence inflicted on Indigenous women and girls. Or, as one young woman testifies, “Just as the land is being used, these women are being used.”
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