Rhymes for Young Ghouls

Rhymes for Young Ghouls is a 2013 Canadian drama film and the feature film debut of writerdirector Jeff Barnaby. It is set in 1976 on an Indian reserve in the context of the residential school system. Although it tells the fictional story of a teenager named Aila and her plot for revenge, it is based on the history of abuse of the First Nations people by government agents, including a large number of reported cases of the mental and physical abuse of residential school children. It is presented from the perspective of teenage girl.

The film is set in 1976 at the fictional Red Crow Reserve, a Mikmaq Indian reserve. Aila Kawennahere Devery Jacobs, a Mikmaq youth, loses her mother to suicide and her father Joseph Glen Gould to a prison term. She assumes her fathers drug dealing business while in the care of her uncle Burner Brandon Oakes who himself consumes and sells drugs. Josephs release from prison interrupts Aila and Burners drug business, while they all face the schemes of the abusive Indian agent Popper Mark Antony Krupa. Aila plots revenge against Popper after she is thrown into the reserves residential school.Rhymes for Young Ghouls had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival onSeptember 2013. It was awarded Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2013 Vancouver International Film Festival. As ofSeptember 2013, IMDb reported a user rating of 8.110, coupled withhighly favourable critical reviews. Its first theatrical release was in Toronto, Ontario onJanuary 2014. ........

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