Luk’Luk’I
A portrait of five Vancouverites living on society’s fringes during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Wapeemukwa’s debut feature braids documentary and fiction, casting non-professional actors as versions of themselves in a hallucinatory portrait of survival, dignity, and dispossession at the edge of the Games. It falls somewhere between a fiction we need to see and a documentary we wish didn’t have to exist.
Awards
- Best Canadian First Feature Film — Toronto International Film Festival
- Discovery Prize — Directors Guild of Canada
- Best BC Film — Vancouver International Film Festival
- TIFF Top Ten Canadian Film of 2017
Selected festivals
Toronto International Film Festival · Vancouver International Film Festival · Festival du Nouveau Cinéma · Los Cabos International Film Festival · Seattle International Film Festival · Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival · Edinburgh International Film Festival · Présence Autochtone Montréal · Queer Lisboa · Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival · Harm Reduction Coalition Film Festival (New Orleans) · The Core Collaborative Learning Homelessness Film Festival · Xposed Queer Film Festival (Berlin)
Credits
Written and directed by Wayne Wapeemukwa.