Fathers & Sons (2010 film)

Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons
	Film poster
Directed by	Carl Bessai
Written by	Carl Bessai
Produced by	Carl Bessai; Jason James
Starring	Benjamin Ratner; Jay Brazeau; Stephen Lobo; Manoj Sood; Tyler Labine; Vincent Gale
Cinematography	Carl Bessai
Edited by	Mark Shearer
Music by	Schaun Tozer
Production; company	Ravenwest Films
Distributed by	Kinosmith
Release date	September 25, 2010 (EIFF);
Running time	87 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Fathers & Sons is a 2010 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Carl Bessai.^[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]

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[edit]

Stephen Lobo as Kama / Cameron
Manoj Sood as Satish
Tyler Labine as Sean
Vincent Gale as Vince
Hrothgar Mathews as Hrothgar
Tom Scholte as Tom
Blu Mankuma as Blu
Viv Leacock as Viv
Jay Brazeau as Anton
Benjamin Ratner as Bernie
Sonja Bennett as Sonja

Other cast members;

Jennifer-Juniper Angeli as Concerned Mother
Tantoo Cardinal as Gordon's Sister
Babz Chula as Aunt Barbara
Agam Darshi as Agam
Richard de Klerk as Leonard
Alisen Down as Waitress
Rebecca Jenkins as Rebecca
Leena Manro as Leena
Gabrielle Rose as Mother

References[edit]

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

External links[edit]

Fathers & Sons at IMDb

[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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