Yintah
Available screening types
In-person
Available until
Jul 17, 2026
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Worldwide except Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America, Ireland
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About the film
YINTAH, meaning “land”, is a feature-length documentary on the Wet’suwet’en nation’s fight for sovereignty. Spanning more than a decade, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth.
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
1h 50m
Released
2024
Director
Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano
Producer
Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano, Bob Moore
Executive Producer
Sam Vinal, Doris Rosso, Daniel Cross, Mila Aung-Thwin
Awards & recognition
Hot Docs
Winner of Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature
Hot Docs
Winner of Audience Award
Red Nation's Film Festival
Winner Best International Documentary Feature
DOXA
Special Jury Mention for Elevate Award
DOXA
pecial Jury Mention for Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Director
Lane Doc Fest
Finalist Social Justice Award
Toronto Film Critics Association
Nominee Best Documentary
FIPADOCS
Winner Impact Grand Prix award
Cinema for Peace Dove
Nominee for International Green Film Award
Human International Doc FF
Winner Human Rights Human Wrongs award
Canadian Screen Awards
Winner Best Feature Length Documentary
Canadian Screen Awards
Winner Best Cinematography in Documentary Feature
Canadian Screen Awards
Nominee Best Original Music in a Feature Length Documentary
Canadian Screen Awards
Nominee Best Sound Design in a Feature Length Documentary
Millennium Film Festival
Winner Special Jury Award
Riviera International Film Festival
Winner Best Documentary
Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Winner Best Film
Millenium Docs Against Gravity
Winner Etnomatograf Award
Feature CCE Awards
Winner Best Editing in Documentary
What people are saying
‘"Much like its subjects, Yintah is a film that knows its purpose, and serves it defiantly."‘
Dessane Lopez Cassell
‘"Yintah is a visceral, necessary, brilliantly executed film...a gripping and enduringly impactful experience deserving attention and recognition from all."‘
Mehdi Balamissa
‘"The gorgeous sweeping vistas documented by this film’s enrapturing cinematography gives way to hellish images of strewn, chewed up land marked by apparent and invisible broken barriers ... Yintah vigorously paints a resiliency that will never surrender."‘
Robert Daniels
‘"The fight for the future of the earth could not be more dramatically captured‘
Dorothy Woodend
‘"... an assured, gripping communiqué of whose histories we inhabit on and off screen, and how to ensure their preservation."‘
Saffron Maeve