Film on legacy of residential schools in Canada nominated for best documentary at 2025 Oscars

Film examines harmful legacy of Canada’s residential school system

Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars cried — for the first time in a while — tears of joy on Thursday morning when this year's Oscar nominees were announced.

"I shouted tears of joy, and then I cried tears of joy," he told CBC's Daybreak Kamloops host Shelley Joyce.

Sellars and his community were featured in Sugarcane, which details the legacy of residential schools in Canada, and in particular, that of the St. Joseph's Mission near Williams Lake, B.C.

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It explores the Williams Lake First Nation's ongoing investigation into St. Joseph's, which has heard accounts of disappearances, murders, systematic torture, rape and starvation of children and newborn babies fathered by priests tossed into the school's incinerator.

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