Who by Fire (2025)
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Director: Philippe Lesage Run Time: 155 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Starring: Arieh Worthalter, Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Noah Parker, Paul Ahmarani, Sophie Desmarais
Country: Canada, France
Language: French, English
About the film:
Grand Jury Prize (Generation), Berlin International Film Festival.
Jeff is invited by his friend Max to travel deep in the woods and stay at the isolated estate of acclaimed director Blake Cadieux. He has high expectations for the trip: Cadieux is an artist he greatly admires – plus Aliocha, Max’s older sister, with whom he is secretly in love, is also coming. The untouched and hostile forest and the director’s huge cabin become the territory where the youthful search for ideals and freedom confronts the wounded egos of the adults.
“A beautiful, unusual coming-of-age story”
About the filmmaker:
Philippe Lesage started out in cinema with such noted documentaries as Ce Coeur qui bat (2012 Jutra Award for Best Documentary Feature). He transitioned to fiction with Les démons (The Demons, 2015), which earned strong reviews and numerous prizes at festivals after premiering at San Sebastian Film Festival in Competition. Genèse (Genesis, 2018) first bowed at the Locarno Festival to highly favorable reviews and was invited to over 70 festivals, including Rotterdam IFF, AFI Fest and New Directors/New Films (Moma/Lincoln Center).
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