Hey, Viktor!

Do you remember Cody Lightning from “Smoke Signals?” He sure hopes you do. In this mockumentary about fleeting fame, the hard-partying, hard-up former child star desperately tries to make a sequel to the 1998 Indigenous arthouse hit regardless of budget, know-how, and effective community involvement.“Smoke Signals” was a landmark Indigenous film, casting a long shadow on one of its young stars, Cody Lightning, who played the younger version of the film’s lead star, Adam Beach, and he hasn’t quite moved on. With his life in shambles and still filled with delusions of grandeur, Cody commandeers the documentary film crew meant to capture his intervention and snatches the opportunity he has always longed for: rekindling his movie star ambitions and filming a sequel to the movie that made him not-so-famous. With Lightning playing a raucous version of himself, HEY VIKTOR! is a wild and uproarious mockumentary that playfully riffs on film history and finds comedy in one man’s quest to prolong his 15 minutes of fame. —C.F.