The Montreal World Film Festival

Come check out “HAPPY”, official selection - Regard sur les films du Monde- @FFM 2015, written & directed by 24 year-old, NYU- Tisch graduate, Jordan Goldnadel - the youngest director of this year’s festival !

SCREENNING TIMES:

SEPTEMBER 1 / 5pm @ QUARTIER LATIN - L9.01.5 followed by Q&A with writer/director Jordan Goldnadel and leading actress Isabel Ryan. 

SEPTEMBER 2 / 9:10am @QUARTIER LATIN - L9.01.5

Synopsis Florent, 23, is an upper class Parisian who dreams of going back to America, where he attended college. One summer he meets Alessia, an American girl, lost in the streets of Paris.Together and with random encounters while on a journey from Paris to Normandy, they explore their passions, which draws them closer as well as brings up their clashing differences. As they face a crucial crossroad in their lives, they will uncover new sides of themselves, while struggling to determine who they are personally, professionally and sexually and trying to break free from their upbringings. 

Director Born in Paris in 1989, Jordan graduated from Tisch (NYU) in 2011. After directing 15 shorts, this is his first feature, directed at age 24, in Paris and Normandy, with an international team. Most recently he was the second unit director for an independent American feature, currently in post and has written and directed a short film about violence in France in the aftermath of the January 2015 Paris terror attacks. He’s also working on a new feature film.

WATCH THE TRAILER:

WEBSITE:

http://www.widemanagement.com/#!happy/c1kav

http://www.ffm-montreal.org/en/767-en_.html

DCP/HD - 2015 - France 

97min - Color - Drama

Original title: Happy

With Isabel Ryan, Jordan Goldnadel, Vladimir Perrin, 

Lea Moszkowicz, Arthur Jalta, Marcel Aloro, Charlotte Vercoustre

Produced by Third Generation