Beans will be preceded by the international premiere of the Australian short film Shinkasen, by Aboriginal Australian filmmaker Siena Stubbs.
In the summer of 1990, a twelve-year-old Mohawk girl is forced to grow up fast and find her own inner warrior during an armed stand-off between her community and the government. Torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence, she struggles to build her own identity amidst the chaos of the uprising and the injustice of a world that sees her as "different" even in her own land.
Will she succumb to the pressures of a society intent on bringing her down? Or will she rise up to assert her strength and uniqueness of character?
The film is set during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in 1990.