Sedona, AZ: Continuing the "Best of Fest" film series, the Sedona International Film Festival is featuring the Arizona debut of "Everlasting Moments" on August 4, and actor Hal Holbrook's new film, "That Evening Sun" on July 28.
“Everlasting Moments” by four-time Oscar-nominated director Jan Troell debuts in Arizona on Tuesday, August 4. The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Arizona premiere of this award-winning drama as the fourth film in its seven-week “Best of Fest” series.
The Golden Globe nominated “Everlasting Moments” has achieved overwhelming critical acclaim around the globe and has won numerous awards at prestigious film festivals worldwide, including the Toronto, Telluride, AFI, and Palm Springs festivals. It was Sweden’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award and won five Guldbagge Awards (Sweden’s Academy Awards) in its native land.
Four-time Oscar-nominated director Jan Troell wrote and directed this visually stunning, dramatically brilliant masterpiece that critics are calling a “rare and rich cinematic experience.” Troell has been nominated three times for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar (The Emigrants, The New Land and The Flight of the Eagle) and once for Best Director (The Emigrants). Critics are applauding “Everlasting Moments” as Troell’s best work of his distinguished career.
Sweden in the early 1900s was a time of social change, unrest, war and poverty. Maria, a young working-class mother, wins a camera in a lottery. Her first impulse is to sell it for grocery money but instead decides to keep it, changing her whole life. Maria is married to Sigfrid Larsson, an unskilled laborer, hard worker, lothario, and alcoholic.
In an attempt to sell the camera, Maria meets photographer Sebastian Pedersen, also known as “Piff Paff Puff," who persuades her to use the camera, at least once, before selling it. Pedersen teaches her the fine art of photography and Maria sees the world through new eyes while “Piff Paff Puff” sees Maria as the beautiful, talented woman she is.
