
Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide
Kevin Annett, a former United Church minister in British Columbia, spent years collecting testimony from Indigenous survivors of Canada's Indian Residential Schools before the church defrocked him and his own family cut ties. This film follows his investigation into what he argues was a deliberate campaign of destruction carried out through institutions like the Alberni school, mixing survivor interviews, archival photographs of the schools, and Annett's own footage of unmarked burial sites he says hold the remains of children who never came home. Church officials and government records are set against the survivors' accounts, and the film traces Annett's escalating conflict with the United Church of Canada as he pushes for a public tribunal. It is built as advocacy journalism rather than a neutral inquiry, told through the eyes of a man who became a pariah in his own denomination for pursuing it. The unmarked graves and the survivors' plain, unembellished testimony are what stay with you.