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Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
The Young Arsonists (2022)
Canada |
2022 |
93 min.
Set in the ‘80s amongst the sparse landscape of an isolated farming community, four restless adolescent girls band together to escape their troubled lives and patriarchal constraints by reclaiming an abandoned farmhouse as their own. When their secret world is threatened, the girls’ relationships are tested to an extreme.
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Year | 2022 |
| Duration | 93 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | English |
| Subtitle | Czech |
| Directed by | Sheila Pye |
| Screenplay | Sheila Pye |
| Director of Photography | Michael Leblanc |
| Music | Tom Third |
| Edited by | Lev Lewis |
| Contact | Latido Films |
Biography
Canadian director, screenwriter and visual artist. She graduated from Ontario College of Art & Design and Concordia University in Montreal. Her award-winning short films include The Red Virgin (2011). She debuted with the feature drama The Young Arsonists (2022).