WITHDRAWAL (2025) — St. Louis Premiere w/ Q&A and live music performance
August 1 : 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
“The best film about addiction since Requiem for a Dream” – Film Threat
Artistic lovers Viv and Jay are trapped in a vicious cycle of codependent heroin addiction. When Viv’s wealthy parents hire an interventionist to take her to rehab, the couple decides to go it alone with nothing but a suboxone prescription and each other. All they have to do is survive one harrowing night of withdrawal. As the hours tick by, physical, mental, and emotional torments send them searching through fractured memories, trying to figure out where it all went wrong.
Raw, unflinching, and surprisingly funny, Withdrawal was shot on miniDV in Athens, GA for a budget of $60k. Winner of 12 awards on the festival circuit including Best Feature/Best Director at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and Best Actress at the Kanazawa Film Festival.
Film composer Nicolette Emanuelle will perform a selection of the score live before the film. A Q&A with writer/director/editor Aaron Strand and composer Nicolette Emanuelle follows the film.
WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING…
Oscar-worthy
“In a world where movies like this would be nominated for Oscars and BAFTAs, Evans and Michal would be taking home all the awards for their acting”
Film Fugitives
“Expert filmmaking”
“Superbly acted and jarringly raw and realistic to the core, Withdrawal offers a harsh look at drug addiction through expert filmmaking“
Film Focus
“Unflinching”
“An unflinching look at heroin addiction that acts as an excellent cautionary tale“
The Newnan Times-Herald
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