{"id":20937,"date":"2025-01-17T21:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=20937"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:34:13","slug":"who-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/who-by-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO BY FIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20938\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/whobyfire-236x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/whobyfire-236x350.jpg 236w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/whobyfire-600x889.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/whobyfire.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>WHO BY FIRE<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2025 &#8211; 135&#8242; &#8211; A Canada\/France Co-production, Drama, Coming of Age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Written by:\u00a0Philippe Lesage.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Philippe Lesage.<br \/>\nStarring: Noah Parker (II), Aur\u00e9lia Arandi-Longpr\u00e9, Arieh Worthalter, Paul Ahmarani, Sophie Desmarais, Antoine Marchand-Gagnon, Guillaume Laurin, Carlo Harietta, Irene Jacob, Laurent Lucas.<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2024, New York International Film Festival 2024.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA\u00a0KimStim\u00a0release.\u00a0|<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><em>A getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest becomes the site of escalating, multigenerational tensions and anxieties in this disquieting, impeccably mounted coming-of-age drama from Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage (Genesis, New Directors\/New Films). Ostensibly a merry reunion between well-known film director Blake Cadieux (Arieh Worthalter, 2024 C\u00e9sar winner for Best Actor for\u00a0The Goldman Case) and his longtime friend and former collaborator Albert Gary (Paul Ahmarani), the vacation gradually becomes something far more complex and less stable, especially with the combustible admixture of Albert\u2019s teen son\u2019s best friend, Jeff (Noah Parker), and Albert\u2019s self-asserting daughter Aliocha (Aur\u00e9lia Arandi-Longpr\u00e9). Long-simmering middle-aged resentments surface, set against the anxieties of the young, all captured sensitively by Lesage, who in recent years has proven unparalleled in evoking the psychological contours of teenagers finding their paths through treacherous emotional landscapes. Featuring thrillingly choreographed dinner sequences of mounting tension,\u00a0Who by Fire\u00a0confirms Lesage as a major contemporary filmmaker, with its assured tonal negotiation of the naturalistic and the oneiric, the joyous (especially an epic dance interlude to The B-52s) and the ominous.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B0F9B47C99\/ref=atv_sr_fle_c_sr4e8ffb_1_1_1?sr=1-1&amp;pageTypeIdSource=ASIN&amp;pageTypeId=B0F9B7793C&amp;qid=1751598168620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO BY FIRE | 2025 &#8211; 135&#8242; &#8211; A Canada\/France Co-production, Drama, Coming of Age. Written by:\u00a0Philippe Lesage. Directed by:\u00a0Philippe Lesage. Starring: Noah Parker (II), Aur\u00e9lia Arandi-Longpr\u00e9, Arieh Worthalter, Paul Ahmarani, Sophie Desmarais, Antoine Marchand-Gagnon, Guillaume Laurin, Carlo Harietta, Irene Jacob, Laurent Lucas. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2024, New York International Film Festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,127,48,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-on-digital","category-co-produced-by-france","category-coming-of-age","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20937"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22823,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937\/revisions\/22823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}