Director
Stephen Campanelli
Starring
Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck, Ajuawak Kapashesit, Edna Manitowabi, Michiel Huisman
Certificate
15
Run Time
100 mins
Release Year
2017
Country of Origin
Canada
Language
Ojibway, English
Director of Photography: Yves Bélanger
Editor: Geoff Ashenhurst
Produced by: Christine Haebler, Trish Dolman, PaulaDevonshire
Music: Jesse Zubot
Screenplay by: Dennis Foon
Production Designer: Oleg Savytski, Rocco Matteo
Sound Production: Patrick Haskill
Indian Horse
Adapted from Richard Wagamese’s acclaimed novel, Indian Horse follows Saul Indian Horse, a young Canadian First Nations boy, who survives the brutal Indian residential schooling system overseen by Christian priests and, against all the odds, becomes a star ice hockey player. There is a triumph-over-adversity aspect to this film, but at its more worrying heart is the awful way Saul and his classmates are treated at school (beaten, kept in cages and worse), far from their own culture and heritage, and this contrasts with the sporting highs.