The Northlander is a 2016 Canadian fantasy adventure film written and directed by Benjamin Ross Hayden.
[1] The film stars Corey Sevier as Cygnus, Roseanne Supernault as Mari, and Michelle Thrush as Nova.
The Northlander was lauded as one among "8 of indigenous cinema's most important films" by i-D magazine.
[5] The Northlander theatrically opened in over ten major cities across Canada between October 2016 and April 2017.
The story is inspired by the historic journey of the Métis leader Louis Riel away from Batoche, Saskatchewan toward the Montana mountains in the 1880s.