Night Raiders is a 2021 Canadian-New Zealand science fiction dystopian film written and directed by Danis Goulet.
[2] Set in a dystopian version of North America in the year 2044, the film centres on Niska (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers), a Cree woman who joins a resistance movement against the oppressive military government in order to save her daughter.
[3] The film stars Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart, Alex Tarrant, Amanda Plummer and Violet Nelson.
[2] In a dystopian North America in 2044, war and environmental degradation have led to the almost complete abandonment of cities and to the establishment of a totalitarian military dictatorship called the "Regime".
Ten months later, Niska is living in a city apartment, where a man she knows named Randy says he has obtained a way for both of them to become official citizens of the Regime, with all its benefits.
The female Cree leader Ida tells Niska about a prophecy of a stranger coming from the north to lead them to a place called Bigstone.
Niska rebuffs the tribe, returning to the city where there is an epidemic possibly caused by the food packets the drones drop.
Niska convinces Ida and Leo to help rescue her daughter in return for leading the tribe's children to safety in the north.
The website's consensus reads, "Night Raiders strikes grim parallels between its dystopian setting and the present, offering a disturbing reminder that the horrors of the past are often very much still with us.