Nine Days

Nominee
Best Supporting Male
Spirit Awards
Nominee
Best First Feature
Spirit Awards
Winner
Screenwriting Award
Sundance Film Festival
A life-affirming epiphany, 'Nine Days' is cinema of a higher calling, spiritual without denomination.
-- Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times

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Nine Days

Will (Winston Duke) spends his days in a remote outpost watching the live Point of View (POV) on TV's of people going about their lives, until one subject perishes, leaving a vacancy for a new life on earth. Soon, several candidates — unborn souls — arrive at Will's to undergo tests determining their fitness, facing oblivion when they are deemed unsuitable. But Will soon faces his own existential challenge in the form of free-spirited Emma (Zazie Beetz), a candidate who is not like the others, forcing him to turn within and reckon with his own tumultuous past. Fueled by unexpected power, he discovers a bold new path forward in his own life. Making his feature-film debut after a series of highly acclaimed and award-winning short films and music videos, Japanese Brazilian director Edson Oda delivers a heartfelt and meditative vision of human souls in limbo, aching to be born against unimaginable odds, yet hindered by forces beyond their will...
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Genre
Drama, Fantasy
Web Site
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Runtime
124
Language
English
Director
Edson Oda
Writer(s)
Edson Oda
Cast
Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong, Tony Hale, Bill Skarsgård
Awards:
Nominee, Best Supporting Male, Spirit Awards
Nominee, Best First Feature, Spirit Awards
Winner, Screenwriting Award, Sundance Film Festival
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival
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FEATURED REVIEW
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

“Nine Days” sent me home on an earnest, provocative high. The meta-metaphysical concept of writer-director Edson Oda’s debut feature could easily go south: Unborn souls are interviewed in a beachfront Limbo by a troubled heavenly bureaucrat (Winston Duke of “Black Panther”). The wit and ingenuity of ...

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