A Windigo Tale

(2010)

★ 5.7 IMDb · 15 votes

Year: 2010

Runtime: 92 мин

Director: Armand Garnet Ruffo

Cast: Andrea Menard, Elliot Simon, Энни Мерфи, Гэри Фармер, Брэндон Оакес

Plot

Two stories woven together, one profoundly affecting the other. A Native Canadian grandfather drives north accompanied by his grandson, a youth-at-risk, who comes to learn about the dark secrets of his family and community: in an isolated village an estranged mother and daughter must reunite to exorcise the voracious Windigo spirit tied to a painful past. Taking its inspiration from Ojibway spirituality and from the history of the residential school system, where generations of children were forcibly taken from their families and aggressively assimilated into Euro-Canadian society.