sellars' kids from hockey practice and spending, you know, nights watching american idol with rick gilbert decided to shoot on prime lenses, which meant we couldn't zoom, which meant we had to move our bodies to be that close, which required just a lot of trust built over time. >> being sorry something is just the first step. you have to take action. >> the film references apologies by both the church and the canadian government. but in recent years, efforts to right the wrongs of the boarding schools have faced backlash. if canada's conservative party wins this year's election, there are fears funding to further investigate the atrocities will cut. >> our film, i think, should be seen as the beginning of correcting the historical record. and i think it's unfortunately going to go down as sort of a moment where we just started discovering more about what happened at these schools. and then, you know, for political reasons, our society's moved on from correcting the record. >> "sugarcane" is now streaming on hulu and disney +. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. geoff: that is the news