Riddle of Fire
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Director: Weston Razooli / United States of America / 2023 / 113 min
English / Czech subtitles
19:30 - 21:23
Golden Apple Cinema, sál 5
Award-winning American writer/director Weston Razooli grew up in Park City, Utah. His feature debut RIDDLE OF FIRE premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023. At thirteen he was sent to boarding school in Southern California. He attended California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he studied illustration, graphic design, and fashion design - with the intention to apply these mediums towards filmmaking. In 2015 he founded Anaxia, a production company based in Los Angeles.
For Hazel, Alice, and Jodie, nothing promises more fun than a new video game, but they are stymied from enjoying it by a password-protected television. Their mother tasks them with a quest to retrieve a blueberry pie in exchange for the magic words. The deceptively simple task compounds with complications, and the trio find themselves whisked away through woodlands dark, running afoul with the Enchanted Blade Gang, an enigmatic coven led by an honest-to-Lilith witch.