This 2024 documentary film follows an investigation into the Canadian residential school system for Indigenous children, in which many suffered horrific abuse by the Catholic priests entrusted with their care.

From 1894 throughout most of the 20th century, Indigenous children were forced by the Canadian government to attend segregated residential schools, mostly run by the Catholic Church.

Widespread stories of appalling abuse in the schools were either suppressed, disbelieved, or denied by the Catholic Church and the authorities.

Sugarcane is a 2024 documentary film co-directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat, an Indigenous writer, filmmaker, and activist and the son of a survivor of St. Joseph's Mission school near the Sugarcane Reserve in British Columbia.

Following a 2021 investigation into unmarked graves at the school, the film exposes the generational trauma still being inflicted on members of Indigenous communities as a result of the atrocities committed at residential schools.