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WILD INDIAN

By Lyle MITCHELL CORBINE JR

Drama - Completed 2020

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival (online) 2021

U.S. Dramatic Competition

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama, First film
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Lyle MITCHELL CORBINE JR
- Cast
- Michael GREYEYES, Chaske SPENCER, Kate BOSWORTH, Jesse EISENBERG
- Producer(s)
- Blake PICKENS, Thomas MAHONEY, Lyle MITCHELL CORBINE JR
- Synopsis
- Makwa, a young Anishinaabe boy, has a rough life. He often appears at school with bruises he says he got falling down, but no one believes him. He and his only friend, Ted-O, like to escape by playing in the woods, until the day Makwa shockingly murders a schoolmate. After covering up the crime, the two boys go on to live very different lives. Now, as adult men, they must face the truth of what they have done and what they have become.
  
  In his feature debut, writer-director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. (Shinaab and Shinaab, Part II, 2017 and 2019 Sundance Film Festivals) tells a story that spans centuries and the continent in a film destined to be a touchstone in Indigenous cinema. Leading an impressive cast, Michael Greyeyes delivers a gripping, enigmatic performance as a modern Native American man who has done terrible, unforgivable things. With a strong and compelling visual style that evokes both fascination and dread, Wild Indian considers the cost of survival in a world as cruel as our own.