The Box of Sun

The Box of Sun
FrenchLa boîte à soleil
Directed byJean Pierre Lefebvre
Written byJean Pierre Lefebvre
Produced byJean Pierre Lefebvre
Starring
CinematographyLionel Simmons
Edited byBarbara Easto
Music byJean Pierre Lefebvre
Production
company
Cinak
Release date
  • September 11, 1988 (1988-09-11) (TIFF)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryCanada

The Box of Sun (French: La boîte à soleil) is a Canadian film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1988.[1] Told without dialogue, the film is set in a surreal fantasy world in which the sun has been blocked from the sky, but a group of children have access to a source of light hidden in the forest; it stars Arsinée Khanjian as a young woman who seeks out the children for their help in reviving her lover (Atom Egoyan).[2]

The film premiered at the 1988 Festival of Festivals.[3]

  1. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 29.
  2. ^ Ronald Foley Macdonald, "Jean Pierre Lefebvre's La boîte à soleil/The Box of Sun". Cinema Canada, January 1989.
  3. ^ Rick Groen, "Film festival features Milk and Honey". The Globe and Mail, July 20, 1988.