Kayla: A Cry in The Wilderness
– Set in the 1920s, this film tells the poignant and inspiring story of Sam MacKenzie (Tod Fennell), a..
Set in the 1920s, this film tells the poignant and inspiring story of Sam MacKenzie (Tod Fennell), a boy whose explorer dad disappeared on an expedition to the Arctic tundra. Unable to make friends, adjust to his new Canadian home or get along with his stepfather (Henry Czerny), Sam finds solace in Kayla, a wild dog he hopes to enter in a dogsled race. But when the community turns against Kayla, Sam must come to her rescue.
English
Nicholas Kendall
Peter Behrens, Elizabeth van Steenwyk (novel)
Tod Fennell, Meredith Henderson, Bronwen Booth, Henry Czerny
Sam, the 12 year old son of a famous missing polar explorer, has despaired. His mother has married again and moved with him and her new husband to the wasteland of Canada. He doesn't like him, the place, and has problems finding new friends. One day he meets a wild dog which one looks like the leader of his father's sled dogs. With him and the two family dogs he plans to compete in this year's sled dog race. He is getting closer to the neighbour's daughter who is able to build the sled. But her father wants to kill all wild dogs...
2 nominations.
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