Synopsis
The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in each other’s instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the natural enemy.
Filmmaker
Kelly Reichardt
She is one of the essential references of recent North American independent cinema. Her debut feature, River of Grass, was selected at Sundance and nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards. Since then, she has directed seven feature films, selected at all the major festivals, which have made her one of the most relevant authors of today, with stories that move away from big cities and speak of intimate relationships between people and their environments.
Filmography: First Cow (2019), Owl (curt, 2019), Certain Women (2016), Night Moves (2013), Meek's Cutoff (2010), Wendy y Lucy (2008), Old Joy (2006), Then a Year (curt, 2001), Ode (migmetratge, 1999), River of Grass (1994)
