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Bones of Crows

6.8(14)20232h 2m1

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

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Status
Released
Budget
$19M
Box office
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Language
Cree
  • indigenous
  • world war ii
  • period drama
  • historical
  • roman catholic church
  • residential school
  • first nations
  • abused child
  • forced schooling

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Canada

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Release dates

  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereToronto International Film Festival10 Sept 2022
    • Theatrical2 Jun 2023

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Bones of Crows was released on 2 June 2023.

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    ALIbambam

    7/17/2025

    Writer, Producer and Director Marie Clements' complex and fast-paced movie Bones of Crows has captured the complex effects of Canadian residential schools' legacy of abuse through the voice of Aline Spears (Grace Dove), a Cree woman forced to endure sexual, physical and emotional abuse at a Canadian Roman Catholic run residential school. What sets this story apart from others is the complex telling through PTSD flash…

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