Matt and Mara

A naturalistic and nuanced indie drama about two former university friends reuniting after years apart, by writer-director Kazik Radwanski. 

Working again with creative collaborators Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson, Kazik Radwanski follows up Anne at 13,000 Ft. (LIFF 2020) with a compelling indie drama about two university friends reconnecting years later. Mara is now a creative writing professor, married with a young child, while Matt is a renowned author. When a chance encounter leads them to rekindle their friendship, the nature of their relationship begins to stray into ambiguous territory, teetering dangerously close to an affair. This light, naturalistic, and nuanced drama has echoes of Éric Rohmer and Hong Sang-Soo, while cleverly subverting romantic comedy tropes. 

"The film offers no easy answer for their situation. No happy resolution. There is just love in all its forms; messy and simple, spoken and unspoken, shared and hidden." - Marya E. Gates, Roger Ebert