Schedule
7:00pm :Short - The Overlook
New York Premiere
Canada - 108 Min
Written And Directed By Ryan Ward.
With Nyah Perkin, Ryan Ward (Amerika), Lennox Leacock, Courtney Sawyer, Ryan Giesen And Laura Mac.
This Beautiful One-Of-A-Kind Feature, Filmed On Location In Manitoba, Canada, Feels Like It Wandered Straight Out Of The Adventurous, Independent Cinema Scene Of The 70s. A 12-Year-Old Girl Travels Across The Country With Her Father, Sonny, A Wounded Soul Who, On The Surface, Seems To Struggle With Tourette Syndrome. But His Outward Condition Hides Something More Powerful That Is Both Frightening And Wonderful. A Story Told With Patience And Poetic Magical Realism, Their Journey Takes Them Into A Small Nomadic Community With Many Secrets. From The Talented Team That Brought Us Amerika And Healer, With Stellar Performances From Teens Nyah Perkin And Lennox Leacock.
7:00pm :Feature - After The Fire
New York Premiere
France - 98 Min
Directed By Mehdi Fikri.
Written By Mehdi Fikri, Claude Le Pape, And Aude Thuries.
With Camélia Jordan, Sofiane Zermani, Sonia Faidi, And Louise Coldefy.
After A Young Man Dies While In Police Custody, The Authorities Claim He Had A Fatal Epileptic Fit. But When His Body Tells A Different Story, His Sister Demands An Investigation. The Boy’s Family Quickly Finds Themselves In The Middle Of A Media Circus, Caught Between Those Who Want To Turn Their Tragedy Into A Political Movement And Their Own Need To Mourn And Bury Him According To The Teachings Of Their Religion. This Exceptional Directorial Debut From Writer And Director Mehdi Fikri Brilliantly Captures The Quiet, Unexpected Moments Of Those Living Through An Unfathomable Experience, With Deeply Realized Performances From His Stellar Cast.
9:30pm :Short - On The Paths Awakened
New York Premiere
France - 13 Min
A Film By Axel Dahan.
During Wwii, Under The German Occupation In France, Two French Teenagers Are Recruited By The Resistance.
In French, With Subtitles.
9:30pm :Feature - A Real Job
France - 102 min
Written and directed by Thomas Lilti.
With Vincent Lacoste (Skylab), François Cluzet (The Untouchables), Adèle Exarchopoulos, Louise Bourgoin, and William Lebghil.
A PhD student in need of money decides to become a substitute teacher at a local school to support himself while he figures out his next steps. But instead of getting a simple assignment, he is thrown into the deep end when he is asked to take over all the math classes of a teacher who left suddenly. Without any training or experience as an educator, he discovers just how difficult teaching is as his colleagues help him navigate this new world in which he finds himself—a realistic and sympathetic look at the lives of those who dedicate themselves to education.
