Theme: Overwhelming Grief
Daniels Spectrum
585 Dundas Street East, Toronto M5A 2B7
“Don’t”, Dir. Deanna Dewey (UK)
North American Premiere
2:20 Short Film :: A lonely man on a roof . Can a stranger stop him from jumping?
- Trailer: None
- Web: http://www.gullfilms.com/
Tags: Drama, Loneliness, Despair, Kindness of Strangers
ReelHeART Director’s Programmer Note: The kindness of strangers may have a bigger impact than you know. Well fleshed out. Such a superb premise for such a short film.
“William’s Lullaby”, Dir. Nicholas Arnold (Canada)
Canadian Festival Premiere
111:23 Feature Film ::While battling his unforgiving childhood and an increasingly rampant depressive paranoia, a middle-aged, broke, and newly single father, struggles to raise his spirited but troubled five-year-old son, in this haunting drama that examines the effects of grief in children and adults alike.
Tags: Grief, Childhood Trauma, Single Parenting, Depression
ReelHeART Director’s Programmer Note: Unsettling, frightening and sadly at any time in today’s society, “William’s Lullaby” can become a true story in an instant. Outstanding performance by lead Richard Roy Sutton, who until this film was never on my radar. Canadian casting directors take note. He’s ‘emotive‘ Ryan Gosling meets ‘intense‘ Tom McCamus…