Director: Alain Guiraudie
Country: France, Spain, Portugal
Year: 2024
Length: 102 minutes
Language: French with subtitles
Starring: Félix Kysyl and Catherine Frot
Awards: 2024 Louis Delluc Prize
Synopsis: Jérémie, an unemployed baker, returns to his hometown in Occitanie to attend his former boss’s funeral. He stays for a few days with the widow Martine, but his presence angers her son Vincent. A fight erupts between the two men.
Misericordia was named the best film of 2024 by the storied French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma.
VTIFF’s screening :
Date and time: Friday, April 18, 2025, 7pm
Location: Main Street Landing Film House, 60 Lake Street, 3rd floor, Burlington
Admission: $12 general admission
AFLCR member discount: $10. Please write to info@aflcr.org to get the discount code, which you can apply when you purchase your ticket online
For tickets and more info, visit VTIFF’s page here.