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Wildhood [Plays 5/11 at 1:50 p.m. and 5/12 at 7:05 p.m. as well as virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] When a troubled, gay, indigenous Mi'kmaw teenager (Phillip Lewitski) living in a trailer park in Nova Scotia with his abusive, alcoholic father (Joel Thomas Hynes) learns that his estranged mother (Savonna Spracklin) he long thought dead in Bretton Hamman's award-winning, coming-of-age, poignant, low-key, down-to-earth, well-acted, 108-minute, 2021 film based on the filmmaker's 2019 short film Wildfire, he runs away with his younger half-brother (Avery Winters-Anthony) to search for her and then are befriended by another Two-Spirited drifter and pow pow dancer (Joshua Odjick) with whom he finds love and acceptance while being taught about their heritage, roots, culture, customs, and language and aided by a kindhearted pastry chef (Michael Greyeyes) and a community elder (Becky Julian).
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