
Once Upon a River (2019)
After her father’s violent death, Native American teenager Margo Crane flees down Michigan’s Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the way, she encounters allies, enemies, danger, and the beauty of nature, all while coming to grips with her past and her own identity. A Midwestern Gothic coming-of-age fable set along the riverbanks, Chicago musician-filmmaker Haroula Rose’s debut feature is an evocative marriage of Winter’s Bone and Huckleberry Finn.
Director: Haroula Rose
Actors: Ajuawak Kapashesit, Coburn Goss, John Ashton, Kenadi DelaCerna, Kenn E. Head, Lindsay Pulsipher, Tatanka Means
Country: USA