Film

The Fire in Our Hearts

A community’s fight for land, truth, and autonomy.

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1h 33m

“A community’s fight for land, truth, and autonomy.”

Synopsis

On British Columbia’s remote Southside, wildfire is not an abstract threat—it is a lived reality. As flames close in on a frontier community, the Cheslatta Carrier Nation and their neighbours face an impossible choice: evacuate, or stay to protect the land that defines them. With limited access and little outside support, the community responds collectively, drawing on Indigenous leadership, cooperation, and generations of knowledge to confront the fire in near isolation. In the aftermath, the burn reveals a long-erased Cheslatta village site, resurfacing a suppressed history just as their response gains wider attention as a model for resilience. But when the flames recede, new constraints emerge—raising questions about the limits of community-led action, and the fragile balance between survival, autonomy, and authority.

Director

Josias Tschanz

Trailer

Documentary

climate changeenvironmentallandgrabbingwildfireenvironmental catastrophemass evacuationindigenous rightsmutual aidcheslatta carrier nationcultural erasure

Cast & Crew

Stewart Alcock

as himself

Cole Bender

as himself

Brad Blackwel

as himself

Gary Blackwell

as himself

Joanne Brown

as herself

Hazel Burt

as herself

John Casimet

as himself

Ryan Chapman

as himself

Walt Cravey

as himself

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