Seventeen

Set over the course of seventeen hours, the lives of three young, queer, Indigenous sex workers intersect through chance, relation, and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.

Cast

Aalayna

Nizhonniya Austin

Taio Gélinas

Kaniehtiio Horn

Joel Oulette

Shannon Baker

Renae Morriseau

Ray G. Thunderchild

Mathias Retamal

Ta'kaiya Blaney

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