Zama, a young Muslim who rebels against the stick-in-the-mud ways of her uncle and aunt, hits the city roads. Saul, a deranged young man who talks revenge on the rapacious developers who displaced his grandparents, dons a grinning mask, casting himself as a makeshift everyday superhero. Set in a maze-like and constantly changing New York City landscape, this oddball urban tale incarnates multicultural identity and gentrification effects, featuring two misfits pitted against an unwelcoming and incomprehensible world.
Funny Face
Funny Face
61st TIFF: Greek premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Tim Sutton
- Script: Tim Sutton
- Cinematography: Lucas Gath
- Editing: Kate Abernathy
- Sound: Eli Cohn
- Music: Phil Mossman
- Actors: Cosmo Jarvis, Dela Meskienyar, Barzin Akhavan
- Production: Rathaus Films, Yellow Bear Films
- Producers: Andrew Morrison, Alexandra Byer, Madeleine Askwith
- Sets: Alan Lampert
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: USA
- Production Year: 2019
- Duration: 95'
- Contact: FILM CONSTELLATION Chloe Tai chloe@filmconstellation.com
Tim Sutton
Director and screenwriter Tim Sutton made his debut feature film Pavilion in 2012. He developed his second feature, Memphis, as part of the Venice Biennale College Cinema workshop in 2013; his third, Dark Night, was loosely based on the Aurora Cineplex massacre and screened at Venice and Toronto. His film Donnybrook, produced by David Lancaster (Drive, Whiplash) and starring Jamie Bell, also premiered at Toronto. Sutton lives with his wife and two sons in Brooklyn, New York.
Filmography
2012 Pavilion
2016 Dark Night
2018 Donnybrook
2020 Funny Face
2016 Dark Night
2018 Donnybrook
2020 Funny Face
