Adoration

Details
Genre:
Drama
Run Times:
101 min
Language:
English
Cast:
Arsinée Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Noam Jenkins, Devon Bostick
Director:
Atom Egoyan
Writer:
Atom Egoyan
Plot Summary

ADORATION speaks to our connections—with each other, with our family history, with technology and with the modern world. Sabine (Arsinée Khanjian), a high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend.

Festivals and Awards

Cannes Film Festival (Competition), France, May 2008
*Ecumenical Prize

Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia, July 2008

Durban International Film Festival, South Africa, July 2008

Film Fest Hamburg, Germany, September 2008
*Douglas Sirk Award – Atom Egoyan

Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, September 2008

Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland, September 2008

Pusan, South Korea, October 2008

Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland, October 2008

Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain, October 2008

London Film Festival, UK, October 2008

Flanders International Film Festival Ghent, Belgium, October 2008

Middle East International Film Festival – Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 2008

Gijon International Film Festival, Spain, November 2008

Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia, November 2008

Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden, November 2008

Bratislava International Film Festival, Slovakia, November 2008

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia, November 2008

Havana Film Festival, Cuba, December 2008

Kosmorama Trondheim IFF, Norway, March 2009

Prague International Film Festival, Czech Republic, March 2009

Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong, March 2009

Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey, April 2009

Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan, June 2009

International Film Festival Baltic Pearl, Latvia, September 2009