Phillip Lewitski
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Avery Winters-Anthony
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Joshua Odjick
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Michael Greyeyes
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Steve Lund
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Joel Thomas Hynes
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Savonna Spracklin
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Jordan Poole
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Callum Dunphy
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Bailey Maughan
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Ursula Calder
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Mary-Colin Chisholm
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Phillip Lewitski | Avery Winters-Anthony | Joshua Odjick | |||
Michael Greyeyes | Steve Lund | Joel Thomas Hynes | |||
Savonna Spracklin | Jordan Poole | Callum Dunphy | |||
Bailey Maughan | Ursula Calder | Mary-Colin Chisholm |
Phillip Lewitski | Avery Winters-Anthony | ||
Joshua Odjick | Michael Greyeyes | ||
Steve Lund | Joel Thomas Hynes | ||
Savonna Spracklin | Jordan Poole | ||
Callum Dunphy | Bailey Maughan | ||
Ursula Calder | Mary-Colin Chisholm |
Riffing on the road-movie genre, director Bretten Hannam charts Link’s growing self-awareness, which is deeply connected to the (re)discovery of his heritage. It’s been a while since a movie has fully relished in the bucolic Eastern Canada countryside. The landscape (Annapolis Valley in traditional Mi’kmaq territory) offers succour to Link and Travis – and opens them up to a very different world. Wildhood will elicit comparisons to recent Canadian titles like Firecrackers and Sleeping Giant, but the protagonists in those films were constrained by their age and limited choices. While Link and Travis aren’t free from danger, heartbreak, or disappointment, their lives are increasingly defined by possibility.