Arquivo / 49th mostra

The documentary revisits one of the most discredited convictions in modern America to chronicle the five-decade campaign to exonerate the most famous living Native American activist. With archival footage and AI recreations, the film brings alive the turbulence of the 1970s, when the US government cracked down on the American Indian Movement as it protested centuries of anti- Indian injustice and oppression. Leonard Peltier, one of its leaders, became the most notorious casualty in 1975 when the FBI descended on the Pine Ridge Reservation where he and others were staying. The ensuing shootout left one Indian and two FBI agents dead, and trapped Peltier in a Kafkaesque nightmare no lawyer in 50 years could resolve.

Presented at the Sundance Film Festival.