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Alberta Number One

Alberta Number One poster
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 23m
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A documentary film crew travels through Alberta visiting roadside attractions for a museum project. Tensions arise among the crew members as they work together on the road.

observationalintrospectiveroad-tripunderstatedquirkygroundedslow-paced

What happens

Alberta Number One is a Canadian dramatic film, directed by Alexander Carson and released in 2024. The film centres on a documentary film crew who experience interpersonal tensions while travelling around Alberta to film the province's roadside attractions for an "Untitled Museum Project". The cast includes Liz Peterson, Bebe Buckskin, Kris Demeanor, Benjamin Carson, Randall Okita and Ingrid Vargas. The film premiered on October 16, 2024, in the national competition at the 2024 Festival du nouveau cinéma, and was screened the following week at the 60th Chicago International Film Festival. Game Theory Films subsequently acquired the film for commercial distribution in November 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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