Film Screening: Fancy Dance
About the Event
Since her sister's disappearance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece Roki by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of Jax losing custody to Roki's grandfather, the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki's mother in time for the powwow. Fancy Dance (2023, rated R) begins as a search for a missing person but turns into a deeper study of the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world and a failed justice system.
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