This year, DOCUMENTA 10 will be featuring the work of the internationally known filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin; a politicised filmwriter whose work has gone practically unseen in Spain.

Alanis Obomsawin is a Canadian filmmaker, musician, educator and activist who will show a retrospective of her spirited film work in this years 7th edition of the film festival DOCUMENTA MADRID.“Oka Crisis” is one of her most emblematic films, it deals with a conflict between the Canadian city of Oka and the Mohowk community over the building of a golf course in sacred land worshiped by the native tribe. “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance” will be shown in this years festival for its shows a clear vision of the details regarding this paradigmatic event, of the existing struggles between official policy and the survival of the native communities of Canada.

Her work defending the rights of natives in Canada over the course of her filmmaking career has opened up doors for indigenous communities in the most adverse of circumstances. The ups and downs of their everyday development, their curious rites and stalwart beliefs, appear throughout her work, which will be screened at DOCUMENTA MADRID 10.