War Pony (2022)

Directed by

Riley Keough

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two young Oglala Lakota men navigate life on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The film follows their separate struggles with family, survival, and their own ambitions.

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What happens

War Pony is a 2022 American drama film directed and produced by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell—the first time either had directed a feature—from a screenplay by Keough, Gammell, Franklin Sioux Bob and Bill Reddy. It stars Jojo Bapteise Whiting and Ladainian Crazy Thunder. It had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section on May 21, 2022, and won the Caméra d'Or, which is awarded for the best first feature film. It was released in the United States on July 28, 2023, by Momentum Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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