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WHERE IS KYRA?

By Andrew DOSUNMU

Drama - Completed 2016

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2017

Premieres

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Andrew DOSUNMU
- Cast
- Michelle PFEIFFER, Kiefer SUTHERLAND
- Producer(s)
- Christine VACHON (Killer Films), David HINOJOSA (Killer Films)
- Synopsis
- Mild-mannered, sheltered Kyra, played with intensity by Michelle Pfeiffer, begins to spiral after the death of her mother. Long out of work, the deep-in-debt Kyra struggles to support herself. As she becomes increasingly desperate and isolated, longing for her mother, she launches a cryptic, last-ditch scheme to keep from being evicted. She also finds solace in another lonely soul, Doug (Kiefer Sutherland), from whom she initially tries to hide her plight, but Kyra slowly ropes him into her deception.
  
  Writer/director Andrew Dosunmu returns to the Festival with his evocative and stylish third feature. Using impeccably composed frames and guided by sharp art direction, Dosunmu and two-time Sundance Film Festival Cinematography Award winner Bradford Young situate the fragile Kyra in a dark, antagonistic NYC. The intensely warm glow of an illuminated palette married to the cold negative space reflects the stark tension with this enigmatic character, who feels out of place in this world.