Rhymes For Young Ghouls is dark vexing film that tackles Canada's stance residential schools and the 'civilization' of Aboriginal children to be 'educated' in the white man's way of life. These kids where forcibly removed from their families subjecting them years of abuse and enforced to loose their own cultural identities. This issue may sound very familiar to some as it's the same plight that the Australian Aboriginals where subjected too and it now seems legally as well as morally many cases can be found in court.
Here's the film's synopsis from The Toronto Film Festival
Set against the backdrop of the residential schools tragedy -- when thousands of Aboriginal children were separated from their families, culture, and language -- his much-anticipated debut feature Rhymes for Young Ghouls resembles an S.E. Hinton novel re-imagined as a surreal, righteously furious thriller. At the tender age of 15, Aila (Kawennahere Devery Jacobs) has taken over the drug business of her father Joseph (Glen Gould) while he serves a stint in prison. Joseph's return signals an abrupt end to Aila's reign as the reservation's drug queen; it also piques the interest of Popper (Mark Antony Krupa), the reserve's corrupt and sadistic Indian agent. The bloody tragedy that unfolds becomes an angry and poetic howl for lost lives, lost opportunities and lost loved ones -- a fever dream whose terrifying fictions are grounded in even more terrible fact.
Rhymes For Young Ghouls has been named by Toronto Film Festival as on of Canada's top 10 films of 2013 which deliver's in a dark, gritty but humorous manner. It delivers a story that must be told but never forgotten, check out the trailer below and if your Canadian you can catch the film on it's limited cinema release from 31st January.
source:Twitch