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Titel: Beans from Tracey Deer – Winner of the Crystal Bear for the best feature film of the children’s jury
\n<\/strong>Beans (Kiawentiio) is the short name of Tekahentahkhwa, an Indigenous girl and her story is set in Canada in 1990 during the so-called Oka Crisis. The Mohawk people, an Indigenous tribe, are resisting the expansion of a golf course on Mohawk land. At the beginning of the story, we see Beans as she is interviewing for a job at an elite school. The odds are in her favor, but then the principal asks about her two career choices she has stated. Beans and her slightly younger sister Ruby (Violah Beauvais), along with their mother, have just arrived at a wooded area where the Mohawk are peacefully demonstrating and maintaining their barricade. The girls are to gather some wood for a fire and for this purpose they roam through the forest, where they also pass through an old Mohawk burial site. Lovingly, they decorate the old gravestones with flowers and remove various golf balls lying around. However, the peace and quiet is broken by gunshots followed by panicked screams and both girls quickly run back to camp. People are running around everywhere, smoke grenades are igniting and shots are being fired again and again. The whole thing is reminiscent of a terrorist attack, but it is the deployment of a police force and the otherwise peaceful Mohawk put up a fight.<\/p>\n

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Beans bewirbt sich zusammen mit ihrer Mutter auf einer elit\u00e4ren Schule | \u00a9 S\u00e9bastien Raymond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Die beiden Kinder suchen in dem Chaos nat\u00fcrlich ihre Mutter und finden diese zur ihrer Erleichterung auch. Gemeinsam reisen die drei dann zur\u00fcck nach Hause und unterwegs h\u00f6ren sie im Radio von der Aktion und es wird berichtet, das ein Polizist bei dem Einsatz verstorben ist. Von nun an nimmt die Krise ungebremst ihren Lauf und mit dem Polizeieinsatz ist die Lage absolut eskaliert, der Hass der Menschen gegen die Mohawk w\u00e4chst. Mit Hilfe von Archivmaterial werden dramatische Einblicke in die damalige Situation, darunter auch einige Interviews in denen viele rassistische \u00c4u\u00dferungen gegen\u00fcber den Indigenen Volk fallen.
\nDamit die Kinder sich von dem erlebten etwas erholen k\u00f6nnen, nimmt die Mutter beide Kinder an einem anderen Tag zu einer kleinen Einkaufstour mit, da die Waren vor Ort aufgrund der Barrikaden immer knapper werden. Die Reise erfolgt mittels Boot \u00fcber das Meer. Aber auch das gut gemeinte Einkaufserlebnis im Supermarkt verl\u00e4uft anders als erwartet, denn der Einkauf wird ihnen verwehrt, obwohl man sich gut kennt. Mit leeren H\u00e4nden kehren sie zur\u00fcck zum Anlegesteg, wo sich bereits eine Menschenmenge versammelt hat, die alles andere als freundlich gesinnt ist. Es wird denunziert, gespuckt und geschupst und das ohne jegliche R\u00fccksicht auf die Kinder. Die R\u00fcckreise zur Heimat findet erneut unter Schock statt.<\/p>\n

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The mother is a very brave and smart woman. When the situation intensifies at a barrier, she and her friends put themselves between the fronts. For Beans, of course, this is a good role model | \u00a9 S\u00e9bastien Raymond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Beans, these experiences mean a gradual change in her character. Actually, she appears very open-minded, helpful and polite, and even a term like “fuck you” is a taboo for her that she begins to break. She also starts to look for new friends and here she comes in contact with Lily (Rainbow Dickerson), who she sees as a role model. The start of their friendship is a bit bumpy and seems rather superficial at first, but somehow the two come to terms and spend more and more time together, which further changes Beans’ way of thinking or acting. These changes do not go completely unnoticed, as Hank, Lily’s brother, takes a liking to the “new” Beans.
\nHowever, the crisis continues to be omnipresent and in the end even all the elderly, children and women are advised to leave the country for the time being. The evacuation takes place in a police escort, but the presence of the police is more apparent than his, because on the way the fugitives are already awaited by Canadians on the side of the road, who sometimes throw stones at the passing cars. The escape quickly turns into a nightmare and Beans finally loses her previous peace and hope. Only in the last minutes of the film, normality slowly returns, because the government has relented.<\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/strong>
\nBeans is a film that is extremely close and it is based on real events. Already after a few minutes of the film you want to cry about the arrogant and racist behavior towards a people who only wanted to have their rights for a piece of land in which they live. It is a topic that (unfortunately) has not lost its explosiveness, especially now again in the pandemic, where Asians were sometimes denounced because the virus came from Asia.
\nThe film delivers a mixture of currently shot scenes as well as some archive footage from the past, which intensifies the seen very much and allows to understand what once happened.<\/p>\n

Actors:
\n<\/b>Kiawentiio (Beans, Tekahentahkhwa)
\nRainbow Dickerson (Lily)
\nViolah Beauvais (Ruby)
\nPaulina Alexis (April)
\nD\u2019Pharaoh McKay Woon-A-Tai (Hank)<\/p>\n

Director:
\n<\/b>Tracey Deer<\/p>\n

Info about the film:
\n<\/b>https:\/\/www.berlinale.de\/de\/programm\/programm\/detail.html?film_id=202102458<\/a><\/p>\n

Trailer:<\/b><\/p>\n