Malni -Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 20m
Directed by Sky Hopinka | 80 mins | 2020
The Chinookan people’s origin-of-death myth is at the core of Indigenous filmmaker Hopinka’s dreamy, ethereal debut feature, an experimental documentary following young parents Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier as they struggle with concerns surrounding language, connection, and contemporary Indigenous life, against a backdrop of the verdant Pacific Northwest.
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