Thu, May 12 / 7 pm
Fri, May 13 / 9 pm
Sat, May 14 / 2 pm
Sun, May 15 / 3 pm
Directed by Trevor Mowchun & Daniel Eskin
2015, Canada, 102 min
Opening night, Thursday, May 12 at 7 pm and Saturday May 14 matinee Introduced by Trevor Mowchun.
A nightmarish premonition prompts the sudden return of a man named Doveed to his hometown where he confronts the neglect of its past and his own spiritual crisis. In the wake of a childhood friend’s suicide, he re-enters a religious community that is locked in a lingering standstill, ruined by the brutality of repression, and lost in the shadows of collective guilt. Ten years in the making, this film is loosely based on the tragic events
that rocked Winnipeg’s Jewish community in the late ‘80s and ‘90s when the principal of prominent Jewish academy denied allegations of sexual abuse. This film is dedicated to Daniel Levin, one of the alleged victims who came forward with accusations, and who later committed suicide at the age of 17.
