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BENJI'S HOUR

Year 2023
Runtime 99 mins
Language English
World Premiere

Written on a NYC subway at age 15 and shot in true indie style six and a half years later, Gabriel Kahane's deeply personal feature debut chronicles a lawbreaking teenager (Justin Mark) forced to work at a wig shop for cancer patients owned by the warm-hearted Susan (Catherine Curtin). There he befriends a guarded woman (Holly Heiser) who irreversibly alters the course of his life.

Brimming with the nervous energy of its protagonist, Kahane's remarkably self-assured feature film debut is at times raw, funny, gut-wrenching, sad, yet ultimately hopeful - an absolute stunner that peeks behind the curtain into an often bleak, yet altogether human existence of a young man looking for his place in the world.

Content Warning: themes of domestic violence.

Countries

United States
Director
Gabriel Kahane
Executive Producer
Gabriel Kahane, Amy Gossels, Catherine Curtin, John Hadity
Producer
Gabriel Kahane
Screenwriter
Gabriel Kahane
Cinematographer
Mitchell Perrin
Editor
Gabriel Kahane
Cast
Holly Heiser, Catherine Curtin, Kirsten Russell, Gabriel Kahane, Emma Kothari, Justin Mark