Jonah, an unemployed gambler, takes his estranged pot-smoking teen-aged daughter Aurora on a dangerous road trip to Churchill, Manitoba to show her the magnificent Northern Lights – before her vision disorder renders her completely blind.
Acting
Jonas Chernick's committed desperation and Joey King's raw fragility.
Cinematography
Bleak Manitoba landscapes that mirror broken relationships.
Writing
Dialogue that stumbles and recovers like real people actually do.
Director
Sean Garrity
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in actual -40°C Churchill conditions; the cast's visible breath is 100% real suffering.
Churchill's polar bear tourism industry is depicted authentically—this is literally the only way to access the town.
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