MOMMY Special Screenings

Die, a widowed single mother, regains custody of her son, Steve, after he is kicked out of a correctional facility. Trying to make the best of this situation, Die decides to home-school Steve and enlists the help of her neighbor Kyla, a former schoolteacher on sabbatical after an incident that rendered her unable to communicate. Together this trio finds a new sense of balance and regains the hope they once lost. Reuniting with actresses Anne Dorval (I KILLED MY MOTHER) and Suzanne Clément (LAURENCE ANYWAYS), Québécois director Xavier Dolan returns to AFI FEST with a radiant tale of friendship, love and courage. Expertly framed in 1:1 aspect ratio by cinematographer André Turpin, allowing the characters to be inescapably at the center of our attention, Dolan’s fifth film in five years is Canada’s official Oscar® entry.