“Not until we are lost do we find ourselves.” Thoreau’s observation reverberates through Carl Bessai’s plaintive mid-life crisis film. Vincent Gale plays Peter, a Vancouver architect who is trying to set up his own company more in line with his ideals. This proves expensive. His sexy, influencer girlfriend calls it quits when he tells her they will have to sell the house. His 20-something daughter can only stand back and hope he pulls out of his tailspin. A quixotic decision to tough out a Saskatchewan winter in a bare-bones family cabin opens the floodgates of memory…
Apr 12 & 14: Q&A with filmmakers
Carl Bessai
Vincent Gale, June Laporte, Sara Canning, Tanaya Beatty, Ben Cotton, David Cubitt
Canada
2025
English
Book Tickets
Indigenous & Community Access
Credits
Executive Producer
Steve Macy, Sam Eigen
Producer
Laura Lightbown, Carl Bessai
Screenwriter
Carl Bessai
Cinematography
Carl Bessai
Editor
Santiago Bessai
Original Music
Frank Bessai
Also in This Series
Canadian Film Week spotlights 18 features, including six Vancouver premieres and four brand new films from BC filmmakers, plus returning classics, new favourites, and free screenings on National Canadian Film Day.
Incandescence
Filmed across the Okanagan before, during and after several devastating fires by veteran non-fiction filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper (Metamorphosis; ScaredSacred), Incandescence is a mesmerizing cinematic contemplation of the power of wildfires.
Universal Language
In a wintery, Farsi-speaking city that’s equal measures Winnipeg and Tehran, storylines entangle and the concepts of space, time, and identity grow increasingly opaque. Inventive and absurd, Rankin's poetic fable reminds us that Winnipeg is a wonderland. Rated: G
Are We Done Now?
Down River director Ben Immanuel returns with a wry, self-aware Covid comedy in which a socially distant Vancouver documentarian checks in with a stressed-out therapist (Gabrielle Miller) and several of her patients over the course of the pandemic.