A Thousand Roads
Though we journey down a thousand roads, all our roads lead home.
2005 en 40 minutes
Rating: 7
Plot
The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child. Each story explores what it means to belong to a specific community. A Thousand Roads is a fictional work, produced by National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) to explore the human context of the NMAI’s collections. The film is striking visually, and presents through its beauty and its stories an imaginative entry into knowing about Native people living in the vast indigenous geography that comprises the Americas. Rather than presenting a conventional historical perspective, the film is composed of short contemporary fictions about individuals, grounding them in emotional truths to which an audience can easily relate.
Trailer
Cast
John Trudell
Narrator (voice)
Alex Rice
Amanda Cook
Jeremiah Bitsui
Johnny Chee
Candice Costello
Johnny Chee's Girlfriend
Geraldine Keams
Riana Malabed
Dawn
Honorato Nanatay