New People: If I Go Will They Miss Me
All listed screenings take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown.
Director Walter Thompson-Hernandez in person for a post screening Q&A.
Twelve-year-old Lil Ant struggles to connect with his father when he begins to see surreal, almost spectral visions of boys drifting around his neighborhood. Their presence reveals a link between father and son, laying bare the threads that bind family, legacy, and place.
“If I Go Will They Miss Me is motion picture poetry. Floating like a bubble, knowing this moment is fleeting, every scene transports the audience to a mythological state of mind.”
–Cortlyn Kelly, Chicago Reader
“Insists on finding wonder in places where others see only poverty and despair. (See also Sean Baker’s “The Florida Project”)”
– Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times
“If I Go Will They Miss Me finds intense emotionality in a disarming sense of tenderness.”
-Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter
“The lyrical narrative is defined by a bracing sense of wonder and an evocatively delivered humanism that, initially, is an ode to Charles Burnett’s thoughtful social realist dramas.
-Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
“Danielle Brooks proves to be a vibrant vision of a family trying to find their way through the world.”
Chase Hutchinson, The Wrap
