Night Raiders is a 2021 science-fiction feature from Canada and New Zealand, written and directed by Danis Goulet, that imagines a near-future North America where the state has claimed every child as its own and one Cree mother refuses to accept it.
What is Night Raiders about?
The setting is 2043. A war has come and gone, and what remains of the continent's cities sits under military occupation. Under the new order, children no longer belong to their parents; they are collected, registered and raised inside state academies. Niska, a Cree woman living on the margins, has kept her daughter hidden for as long as she could, but the arrangement cannot hold. When the girl is taken into one of the academies, Niska has two options: accept the loss, or find people willing to fight. She chooses the second path and falls in with an underground group of Indigenous vigilantes who operate outside the occupied zones. Together they plan something the state considers impossible, an infiltration of the academy itself. What follows is a story about resilience and stubborn love, told from the perspective of a mother who has nothing left to bargain with and everything to lose.
About the cast
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers leads the cast, joined by Brooklyn Letexier-Hart, Alex Tarrant, Amanda Plummer, Gail Maurice, Violet Nelson, Shaun Sipos and Eric Osborne. The ensemble mixes Indigenous performers from Canada and New Zealand with established character actors, which suits a film built around questions of belonging and who gets to raise the next generation.
Context & significance
Danis Goulet's film arrived in 2021 as part of a wider wave of Indigenous-led genre cinema, using the familiar language of dystopian science fiction to speak about something historically specific: the removal of Indigenous children from their families by state institutions. The Canada and New Zealand co-production reflects two countries whose First Nations and Māori communities share that history. Rather than glossy technology, Night Raiders keeps its world grounded and worn, closer to a war film than a space opera, and at ninety-seven minutes it moves briskly.
Watching Night Raiders on Ktime
Night Raiders is available on K-Time with a Persian dub, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow Niska's story without reading subtitles. Streaming requires a free K-Time account login; this page is free to read. The K-Time interface is designed in Farsi for the Iranian diaspora, and the film sits in the Sci-Fi section alongside other international titles curated for Persian-speaking audiences.