''River'' is a Canadian
thriller film directed by
Jamie M. Dagg
Jamie M. Dagg is a Canadian film director and writer, who won the 2016 Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature, presented to the year's best feature film directed by a first-time director, for his f ...
. It premiered in the Discovery section of the
2015 Toronto International Film Festival
The 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 10 to 20 September 2015. On 28 July 2015 the first wave of films to be screened at the Festival was announced. Jean-Marc Vallée's ''Demolition'' starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naom ...
.
The film was chosen as the winner of the
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's
Claude Jutra Award, as the year's best feature film directed by a first-time director.
"Jamie M. Dagg wins Claude Jutra Award for Laos-set thriller River"
CBC News, 4 February 2016. Rossif Sutherland garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor
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The term most often refers to th ...
at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards
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.
Plot
John Lake (Rossif Sutherland
Rossif Sutherland (born September 25, 1978) is a Canadian actor. He, along with his brothers Angus and Roeg and half-brother Kiefer, are the sons of Donald Sutherland.
Early life and education
Sutherland was born in Vancouver, but lived in P ...
) is an American doctor working in Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
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'' The Hollywood Reporter'', 15 September 2015. After he intervenes to stop the sexual assault
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of a young woman, the assailant is found dead the next morning — thus leaving Lake open to charges of murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ...
if he cannot prove his innocence, and forcing him on the run back to the American embassy in Vientiane.[
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Cast
* Rossif Sutherland
Rossif Sutherland (born September 25, 1978) is a Canadian actor. He, along with his brothers Angus and Roeg and half-brother Kiefer, are the sons of Donald Sutherland.
Early life and education
Sutherland was born in Vancouver, but lived in P ...
as John Lake
* Douangmany Soliphanh as Douangmany
* Sara Botsford as Dr. Stephanie Novella
* Ted Atherton as Patrick Reardon
* David Soncin as Simon
* Aidan Gillett as Lachlan
* Vithaya Pansringarm as The Bartender
References
External links
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2015 films
2015 thriller films
2015 directorial debut films
Canadian thriller films
English-language Canadian films
Best First Feature Genie and Canadian Screen Award-winning films
Films set in Laos
French-language Canadian films
2010s English-language films
2010s Canadian films
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