ALFF Encore: Suze

This screening took place on Monday, February 26, 2024 at 6:00 pmYukon Arts Centre

ALFF Audience Choice Award Winner for Best Canadian Fiction Film!

Suze (Michaela Watkins; Casual, The Dropout) is a single mom whose entitled daughter has just left home for college. The two leads in this coming-of-perimenopausal-age comedy have dynamite chemistry.

When her only daughter leaves for college, Suze, a single mom who has lost her purpose, gets stuck taking care of her daughter's heartbroken ex-boyfriend who she can't stand. On her journey of self-discovery, Suze discovers what living purposefully really looks like, while making an unlikely bond along the way.

The directors Linsey Stewart and Dane Clark (a real-life couple) deliver a funny and heartwarming comedy-drama, that draws out laughs from very relatable circumstances on both sides of the generational gap, about the unexpected friendships that help you become your true self. 

 

Winner of the Best Canadian Narrative Feature Film, Calgary International Film Festival 2023

Content advisory: Self-harm and suicide, sexuality.

Recommended ages 14+

Genre: Drama-comedy