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Catch a free movie for National Canadian Film Day in New Westminster

Night Raiders screens at Landmark Cinemas as part of a nationwide celebration of Canadian film on Wednesday, April 20.
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New Westminster filmgoers can catch a free screening of Night Raiders at the Landmark Cinemas for National Canadian Film Day April 20.

New Westminster residents are being invited to mark National Canadian Film Day with a free movie screening.

New West FilmFest, Reel Canada and Landmark Cinemas are presenting free showings of Night Raiders on Wednesday, April 20.

Moviegoers can catch two screenings, at 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., in auditorium 4.

Night Raiders is the cinematic debut by Cree/Métis writer and director Danis Goulet.

Described as “Indigenous worldview and storytelling at its best,” the film is set in a post-apocalyptic world.

As a film synopsis explains, children who have survived the great war are confined to militarized institutions and conscripted into military service.

But Niska (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) is living off the grid, surreptitiously raising her adolescent daughter Waseese (Brooklyn Letexier-Hart). After Waseese suffers a crippling injury, Niska reluctantly brings her to the city – where a wall keeps the poor, the Indigenous and the politically progressive penned in squalor.

Niska surrenders her daughter to the state so the girl can get medical treatment – but has second thoughts after she meets the Night Raiders, Cree vigilantes dedicated to freeing children from the government academies before they become brainwashed soldiers.

Landmark Cinemas can be found at the Shops at New West, at New Westminster SkyTrain station.

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