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The Last Trapper
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The Last Trapper

101 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Norman Winther has spent decades trapping in the Yukon, and this film follows one season of his life with his wife Nébraska as they work a trapline by dog sled far from any road. The camera stays close to the physical work: building a log cabin by hand, running a team of huskies across frozen rivers, setting traps for marten and lynx, and hauling wood and water through temperatures that can drop far below freezing. There is little dialogue and no narrator explaining what to feel; the film lets the routines of hunting, cooking over a wood stove, and repairing gear carry the story of a life with no neighbors and no modern utilities. Winther, one of the last people still living this way in the region, talks occasionally about what the trapline demands and what it gives back. The wildlife and landscape footage, shot across a full winter, is as much the subject as the couple themselves, tracking how their days are set entirely by weather, daylight, and the animals they depend on.