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The Sweet Hereafter with Atom Egoyan Q&A

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When

November 25 | 7PM

Where

YAC Mainstage

Tickets

$17 Adult, $14 Senior, $10 Youth/Student

As part of the 70 Years of Yukon Cinema, YFS presents the 4k Restoration of Atom Egoyan’s seminal film, The Sweet Hereafter (1997). Widely regarded as one of the greatest Canadian films ever made, it was nominated for 16 Genie Awards and won eight, including best picture, director, and actor. It also won three major awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award nominations for best adapted screenplay and director.

Atom Egoyan returns to the Yukon for the first time since 1986 for this special presentation and will be present for a post-screening Q&A session.

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer (Ian Holm) arrives to help the survivors’ and victims’ families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident (Sarah Polley) has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.

Content advisory: sexual content, inferred incest, nudity, and coarse language.

Recommended for ages 15+

Dir. Atom Egoyan, 1997, Canada, 112 mins