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