From our 2016 Festival:
A masterwork of suspense from one of Canada’s most distinguished auteurs, the latest Atom Egoyan film stars Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer as a retiree who flees his nursing home to complete a secret mission some seventy years in the making – so long as he can remember his goal.
Every time Zev (Plummer) wakes he calls out his wife’s name, only to be reminded that she has died. Zev suffers from memory loss and has been forgetting more and more of late. That’s why Max (Oscar winner Martin Landau) has scrupulously written down instructions for every step of the journey Zev has agreed to take, a journey that will take Zev to various cities across the US and Canada in search of a man named Rudy Kolander – the man who murdered Zev’s family in Auschwitz seventy years earlier.
Winner of the Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award at the 2015 Venice Film Festival.
The short film Keystone was shown before the main feature.
