Wildhood (2021)

Directed by

Bretten Hannam

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

18A

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 50 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy runs away from his abusive father with his younger half-brother to find the mother he thought was dead. On their journey, they meet a two-spirit young man who helps the boy reconnect with his indigenous heritage and becomes his first love.

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What happens

Wildhood is a 2021 Canadian coming-of-age romantic drama film, written and directed by Bretten Hannam. An expansion of Hannam's earlier short film Wildfire, which was the winner of the award for Best Short Film at the Screen Nova Scotia awards in 2020, the film stars Phillip Lewitski as Lincoln, a young man in his late teens who was raised disconnected from his maternal Mi'kmaq heritage by his abusive white father Arvin (Joel Thomas Hynes). Following the discovery that his mother Sarah, whom he had long been told was dead, is in fact still alive, he takes his younger half-brother Travis (Avery Winters-Anthony) on a journey to find her. En route, they meet the openly two-spirit Pasmay (Joshua Odjick), who becomes both a guide to Lincoln in reconnecting with his indigenous roots and a love interest. The cast also includes Michael Greyeyes, Savonna Spracklin, Jordan Poole, Samuel Davison and Steve Lund. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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