CA | 2010 | colour | 75 min
reż|dir Ed Gass-Donnelly pro|pro Ed Gass-Donnelly, Lee Kim sce|sc Ed Gass-Donnelly zdj|ph Brendan Steacy muz|mus Bruce Peninsula  mon|ed Ed Gass-Donnelly ob|cast Martha Plimpton, Peter Stormare, Jill Hennessy, Jackie Burroughs, Ari Cohen dys|dis Visit Films

A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past and as a convert Christian start a new life. However, this provincial idyll is interrupted by a violent murder committed on a young, unknown woman. Walter (Peter Stormare) undertakes a complex investigation that again evokes demons of the past. The Canadian director Ed Gass-Donnelly made a parable – film, whose chapters entitled with citations from New Testament, an obscure action with murder in background and a fantastic soundtrack made by band Bruce Peninsula compose a picture that is both universal and modern, full of references to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, some of the Coen movies as well as Nick Cave’s music.   

AWARDS
2010 International Film Festival in Torino – FIPRESCI Critics Prize in category Best Film

DIRECTOR | Ed Gass-Donnelly (1977)
Director, producer, writer, and editor. Gass-Donnelly’s feature debut, This Beautiful City, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007 and went on to be nominated for four Canadian Academy Awards (Genie Awards). His second feature, Small Town Murder Songs, premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and recently won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film at the Torino Film Festival.