TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 1

Film Details: 8 minutes | Directed by Tyson Houseman (Nêhiyaw) | Short Documentary | 2026 | Treaty 6

Screening with Palestine 36

Synopsis: Five generations of matriarchal lineage are weaved across time as Kokum Penny Roan describes how her uncle burned down a residential school when he was a child.

Tyson Houseman is a Nêhiyaw video artist, performer, and filmmaker from Paul First Nation.

I wrote a novel but I don't think they deserve anything less. Thoughts? Love? Hate?

Endless Sunlight was selected to precede Palestine 36 with the assistance of our friends at ImagineNATIVE to foster further intersectional solidarity between our audience — those born into and those sympathetic to the Palestinian struggle for liberation — and the Indigenous peoples of the land we are situated on; those who we share parallel histories with despite the distance between our homelands. During our opening night, this year falling on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we aim to continue bridging our people together through the use of cinema as we colour the viewing experience of Palestine 36 with that of Kokum Penny Roan’s thoughts and recollections. We hope that as our audience reflects on the past and present context of Palestine and Palestinians as they watch Palestine 36, Endless Sunlight will be a catalyst for those reflections to extend to the past and present conditions of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island.

Co-Curated by: ImagineNATIVE