Kiowa Gordon
8 titles
Filmography
8 results

The Lesser Blessed
(2012)Premiered to critical acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and based on the celebrated novel by Richard Van Camp, The Lesser Blessed is an eye-opening depiction of what it is like to be a vulnerable teenager in today's modern world. Through the eyes of Larry Sole, a First Nation teenager filled with bravado and angst, fragile and yet angry, seeking clarity clouded by confusion, seeking to belong without belonging, comes the story of three unlikely friends isolated in a small rural town discovering what they can of life and love amid racial tensions and the recklessness of youth, in a world clouded by a dark mystery from his past.

Quantum Cowboys
(2023)In this psychedelic, peyote-fueled fever dream of a film, two drifters join a woman in 1870s Southern Arizona to reclaim her land.

Through Black Spruce
(2019)Based on the Giller Award-winning novel of the same name by Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce is a story of identity and survival. The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.

Painted Woman
(2017)In the days of the Old West, Julie is a working Saloon girl, desperate to make it on her own. Passed from hand to hand, Julie is entangled in the Western underworld of prostitution and abuse. When she lands at the feet of Kyle Allison, a wealthy powerbroker of the Old West, it comes with the gift of being taken care of but the cost of more abuse.

Blood Quantum
(2019)The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve, except for its Indigenous inhabitants, who are strangely immune to the plague.

Calico Skies
(2017)A man who has exiled himself to the Mojave desert descends into isolation with only one man as his last connection to the civilized world.

Castle in the Ground
(2021)After his mother's death, a teen befriends his charismatic but troubled neighbor and stumbles into a web of violence, crime, and opioid addiction.
An Act of War
(2015)Battling insomnia & undiagnosed PTSD, a war veteran works nights as a projectionist at a decrepit theater. While struggling to adapt to civilian life, he soon finds himself tangled in an inescapable web of seduction, addiction, & violence.