\n\tATONEMENT<\/p>\n
\n\tDirector-screenwriter: Reed Van Dyk<\/p>\n
\n\tLogline: Displaced from their home by U.S. military action during the early days of the Iraq War, the Khachaturian family finds refuge with relatives, gathering their three generations together under one roof. But when another bombing erupts nearby, they decide to return to their home across the city. As they navigate the war-torn streets of Baghdad, the family is trapped in a firefight between U.S. Marines and insurgents, and one Marine\u2019s split-second decision devastates the family. Years later, haunted by his time in Iraq and aided by a New Yorker journalist, the Marine seeks to reconcile with the Khachaturian matriarch and her surviving family members.<\/p>\n
\n\tSales agents: CAA, WME, Goodfellas<\/p>\n
\n\tPanelists: Reed Van Dyk, Hiam Abbass, Boyd Holbrook, Kenneth Branagh<\/p>\n
\n\tFirst screening: Thursday, September 10, Scotiabank Theatre Toronto<\/p>\n
\n\tKey quote: \u201cThis is effectively an \u2018aftermath of war\u2019 movie, and these people\u2019s lives continue to be shaped well after the ends of these wars. The effects of them carry on for years and decades. And one of the things I was very conscious of when making it and editing it, was that this was one story, one small story, and all these lives were deeply affected by this tragic incident. And stories like this multiply over and over again with every new day of any war, and that is something that is sort of a heavy hold.\u201d \u2014 Van Dyk<\/p>\n
\n\tWatch the video above.<\/p>\n