With Love and a Major Organ (2024)
Director: Kim Albright Run Time: 91 min. Release Year: 2023
Starring: Anna Maguire, Arghavan Jenati, Donna Benedicto, Hamza Haq, Veena Sood
Country: Canada
Language: English
About the film:
World Premiere at SXSW 2024.
In a world where everyone’s heart is an object and there’s a strong societal pressure to dampen emotion, lonely Virtual Insurance broker Anabel always follows her heart. At odds with this overly pragmatic society, and after a series of devastating emotional blows, she rips her heart from her chest and gives it to a man she’s fallen for, the strangely unfeeling George.
Unburdened by her unique yet cumbersome heart, Anabel finds life easier. George, on the other hand, begins to feel everything, to the shock of his overbearing mother, Mona. Anabel soon realizes she needs to get her heart back if she’s going to survive.
“A clever sci-fi comedy for anyone who feels we could all stand to live and love a little more.”
—Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
About the filmmaker:
Kim Albright is an award winning Canadian-British-Filipina director. She featured on the British Film Institute (BFI) Upshot Program, showcasing “the most exciting emerging UK filmmaking talent.” Her shorts have won awards and competed worldwide, including at the BAFTA-qualifying Encounters Film Festival, the BFI London Film Festival and the British Independent Film Festival. She is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre Director’s Lab, the Canadian Academy Director’s Program for Women, and Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) Story & Leadership, and a recipient of the CBC Films WIDC Talent Development Award and the WIDC Feature Film Award. Her latest feature, With Love and a Major Organ (2024) premiered at SXSW Film Festival and won Best Narritive Feature at the Santa Fe International Film Festival.
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