Quote:
"[Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy] is a story that only [Elle-Máijá] Tailfeathers could tell. Not just because it takes place in her community of Kainai First Nation or because it involves the good work her physician Mum, Dr. Esther Tailfeathers, is doing to address substance use and the overdose epidemic. But because it is told with so much hope despite the hardship. Tailfeathers has never shied away from the dark parts of her people's past. But she does so differently here. Whereas settler filmmakers would observe and never interact, Elle-Máijá listens to every person we meet throughout the film and as she becomes close, so do we. We feel every hardship and success with each person we see in the film."
-- Sonya Ballantyne

Source:
Ballantyne, Sonya. "Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy." Review of Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy. Herizons, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring 2022.