Krisha (2015)

Directed by

Trey Edward Shults

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 220 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman returns to her family's home for Thanksgiving after a long absence. Old tensions and her personal struggles resurface over the course of the holiday.

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What happens

Krisha is a 2015 American psychological drama film written, directed and edited by Trey Edward Shults in his feature-length directorial debut, starring his real-life aunt Krisha Fairchild, and is the feature-length adaption of the 2014 short film Krisha also directed by Shults. It received the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award in the narrative feature competition at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival. It was selected to compete in the Critics' Week section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released in a limited release on March 18, 2016, by A24. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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