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NFB Documentary ‘A Man Imagined’ Opens New Montreal Film Festival in January

The Semaine de la critique de Montréal will be screening will be screening the new “documentary fable” ‘A Man Imagined’ (Un homme imaginé).

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‘A Man Imagined’ still, courtesy of NFB
‘A Man Imagined’ still, courtesy of NFB

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be part of the very first Semaine de la critique de Montréal (Montreal Critics’ Week), taking place from January 13th to 19th, 2025, at the Cinémathèque Québécoise and Cinéma Moderne. The newly minted festival will host the Montreal premiere of Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s “documentary fable” A Man Imagined (Un homme imaginé) in its opening program.

Montreal is the filmmaker’s hometown and the film’s shooting location. Capturing the day-to-day life of a decades-long street survivor, this bold film had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and was an official selection at several festivals around the world, including the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver. It was also the Director’s Choice Award winner at the Tallahassee Film Festival.

Cassidy and Shatzky comment:

“Together, over a period of two-and-a-half years, we crafted an intimate and immersive portrait of a man with a rich inner life who is routinely overlooked and often feared… We offer A Man Imagined as a testament to survival.”

Pushing at the limits of non-fiction cinema, A Man Imagined is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.

Made in close collaboration with 67-year-old Lloyd and unfolding along psychological lines, the film reveals, with great cinematic beauty, the existential solitude of a man at once gentle and marred by a storied past.

‘A Man Imagined’ movie poster

‘A Man Imagined’ movie poster

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