I usually wait until Monday or Tuesday to post the movie for the upcoming week, but I wanted to get a jump on things and tell you about Café Daughter that we have playing this weekend (May 24 – 26 @ 8:00PM each night)
Café Daughter follows Yvette Wong, a young Chinese-Cree girl determined to find her place in a small Saskatchewan community in the 1960s. In an effort to protect her children from discrimination, Yvette’s mother Katherine, who is a residential school survivor, has charged her with a secret—to never reveal that she is part Cree. Through tragedy, loss and insurmountable obstacles, Yvette finds her way back to her roots; in the reclamation of her identity she makes her way towards her destiny of becoming a doctor and healer.
Retired senator Lillian Eve Quan Dyck is the inspiration for the movie Café Daughter. Dyck was the first First Nations woman to obtain her PhD in the sciences in Canada. When she was appointed to the Senate in 2005, she became the first female First Nations senator in Canada and the first Canadian-born Chinese senator.
One movie reviewer (Raevin Larue) had this to say about the movie: “There is so much more I can say about Café Daughter. Instead, I leave you with this: please watch this film. Please watch this film with your family and kids if you have them. This film is important and there are so many lessons to be learned from it. I hope it resonates with you the way that it did with me.”
Runtime: 1h 37m
Rated: PG
I know this isn’t a big budget film and you may not have heard of it before. Do yourself and favor and watch the trailer. This is a movie you don’t want to miss.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/xdRvzyKg5hQ?si=Z37jTVLgJZtsbvNo
Website: https://cafedaughter.com/