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Meadowlarks (2025)

Meadowlarks (2025)

Drama

Five indigenous siblings, taken away as children, given to white families. Fifty years later, they have found each other.

Release Date: 2025, November 28
Directors: Tasha Hubbard
Countries: Canada
Production: Experimental Forest Films, January Media
Cast: Alex Rice, Michelle Thrush, Michael Greyeyes, Carmen Moore, Rachel Cantin, Jordan Jayde, Duc Dang

Overview:

The film tells the story of four Cree siblings, Connie, Marianne, Gwen, and Anthony, separated as babies through Canada’s notorious Sixties Scoop, which saw indigenous children taken from their homes to be adopted by white families. Excited and curious, but also scared and afraid of rejection, they agree to meet for the first time over a holiday weekend in the mountains of Banff.

Keywords:

woman director reunion family reunion first nations sixties scoop siblings reunion life-affirming indigenous canadians canadian genocide of indigenous peoples