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MATT AND MARA
MATT AND MARA

• Director: Kazik Radwanski
• CANADA / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 80’ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Kazik Radwanski
• Director of Photography: Nikolay Michaylov
• Editing: Ajla Odobasić
• Cast: Deragh Campbell, Matt Johnson, Mounir Al Shami, Emma Healey, Avery Nayman, Marlowe Granados
• Producer: Dan Montgomery, Candice Napoleone
• Production Co.: Medium Density Fibreboard Films (MDFF)
• World Sales: Medium Density Fibreboard Films (MDFF)

A chance encounter leads Mara, a young creative writing professor, to reunite with Matt, a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, who wanders onto her university campus. Bonded by their shared interests, the two begin to grow closer as she contends with her strained marriage. When her husband suddenly cancels plans to drive Mara to a conference out of town, Matt accompanies her on the road trip, where pressure slowly mounts against their close, but undefined relationship, which is obviously built on conflicts and impossibilities. An expertly playful film on interpersonal dynamics and stretching emotions on an ambiguous journey, Matt and Mara premiered at the Encounters section of the Berlinale in February.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.