40 Acres – TIFF Canada’s Top Ten 2024
February 5 to February 9, 2025
FILM FESTIVAL
Canada's Top Ten 2024
TIFF Canada's Top Ten
Overview
A family fights to protect their farm in a post-apocalyptic world in 40 Acres. After a pandemic has decimated the global food chain the most valuable resource has become farmland. Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) is an African-American military veteran living on her heavily fortified farm with her Indigenous partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) and their four children Emmanuel (Kataem O’Connor), Raine (Leenah Robinson), Danis (Jaeda LeBlanc), and Cookie (Haile Amare). Hailey goes on high alert when the local trade depot is ambushed and she loses contact with her friend Augusta (Elizabeth Saunders). However, Emmanuel goes against his mother’s distrust of outsiders when he helps out a woman named Dawn (Milcania Diaz-Rojas).
40 Acres Synopsis
40 Acres is a post-apocalyptic action-thriller co-written and directed by R.T. Thorne. The film stars Danielle Deadwyler (Carry-On, The Piano Lesson) as Hailey Freeman, a military veteran who does not trust anyone outside of her family outside of her friend Augusta Taylor, played by Elizabeth Saunders (FROM, The Shrouds, IT). Along with her partner Galen, played by Michael Greyeyes (Blood Quantum, Firestarter), Hailey has heavily fortified her family farm from intruders. The family has to go on extra high alert when a cannibalistic militia begins raiding the farms in the area.
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Beginning his career as a music video director, before moving to TV work, R.T. Thorne makes his feature film directorial debut with 40 Acres. Told from the perspective of a family of black and Indigenous ethnicity, the film provides social commentary along with its violent action scenes, which include a very well-done pitch-black shootout. The main plot thread involves the conflicting ideologies between Danielle Deadwyler’s Hailey and her son Emmanuel, the latter of whom endangers the family by helping a stranger named Dawn. Apart from all the gory violence, 40 Acres is ultimately a film about a family persevering.
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