30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

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Section: Festival Laurels from around the World

The Young Arsonists (2022) 15

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.

CountryCanada
Year2022
Duration93 min
Rating15
LanguageEnglish
SubtitleCzech
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).

Ups and Downs of Growing Up, Festival Laurels, Queer

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