Once Upon a River

After her father’s violent death, Native American teenager Margo Crane flees down Michigan’s Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the way, she encounters allies, enemies, danger, and the beauty of nature, all while coming to grips with her past and her own identity. A Midwestern Gothic coming-of-age fable set along the riverbanks, Chicago musician-filmmaker Haroula Rose’s debut feature is an evocative marriage of Winter’s Bone and Huckleberry Finn.

Director: Haroula Rose

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ajuawak Kapashesit, Coburn Goss, Dominic Bogart, John Ashton, Josephine Decker, Kenadi DelaCerna, Kenn E. Head, Lindsay Pulsipher, Sam Straley, Tatanka Means