The Lesser Blessed
You can't have a future until you stand up to your past.
Directed by Anita Doron
Produced by First Generation Films
A coming-of-age drama about a traumatized Indigenous teenager navigating abuse, first love, and rivalry in a small northern town, grounded in intimate character study and the struggle to reckon with the past.
Larry, a 16-year-old Tlicho Indian, lives in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. He has a crush on his classmate, Juliet Hope. Larry's past holds a variety of terrors—his father is abusive and he once had an accident that nearly killed him. When Johnny Beck , a young Métis from Hay River, moves to town, things heat up, for better or worse.
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