Fathers & Sons (2010 film)

Fathers & Sons is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Carl Bessai and released in 2010.[1] An unofficial sequel to his 2008 film Mothers & Daughters, it used a similar process of improvisational character development to dramatize several stories of relationships between fathers and sons.[2]

Fathers and Sons
Film poster
Directed byCarl Bessai
Produced byCarl Bessai
Jason James
Written byCarl Bessai
StarringBenjamin Ratner
Jay Brazeau
Stephen Lobo
Manoj Sood
Tyler Labine
Vincent Gale
Music bySchaun Tozer
CinematographyCarl Bessai
Edited byMark Shearer
Production
company
Ravenwest Films
Distributed byKinosmith
Release date
  • September 25, 2010 (2010-09-25) (EIFF)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Bernie (Benjamin Ratner) meets his estranged father Anton (Jay Brazeau) for the first time at his mother's funeral; Kama (Stephen Lobo) is an accountant who is embarrassed to introduce his fiancée (Sonja Bennett) to his flamboyant gay Bollywood choreographer father Satish (Manoj Sood); Viv (Viv Leacock) and his father Blu (Blu Mankuma) don't see eye to eye about money; Vince (Vincent Gale), Sean (Tyler Labine), Hrothgar (Hrothgar Mathews), and Tom (Tom Scholte) are four brothers, not especially close, who are in for a surprise at the reading of their late father's will.[3]

The film won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Columbia Film in 2010.[4]

Bessai followed up with a third film in his "Family Trilogy", Sisters & Brothers, in 2011.[5]

Cast

Other cast members;

References
  1. "Carl Bessai explores father-son dynamic in new film at VIFF". The Globe and Mail, September 29, 2010.
  2. "Carl Bessai’s Fathers & Sons is a cultural mashup". The Georgia Straight, January 19, 2011.
  3. "What a savvy ensemble; Stories that go down dark roads deftly handled". The Province, November 17, 2010.
  4. "Vancouver Film Critics' Circle awards". Alaska Highway News, January 12, 2011.
  5. "Bessai thought it best to just keep working on Fathers & Sons sequel". The Province, January 20, 2011.
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