1923: Drunken Mariachi music reels across a smoke-filled Mexican boxing stadium as two aging fighters - one white, one black - meet in the center of the ring. Jim "The Fireman" Flynn towers over his opponent, Sam "The Bonecrusher" Langford. It is a fight to the finish and one of them has a secret.
Director Giran Findlay's assured docu-fiction Things Behind the Sun follows a week in the life of a teenage tennis player who is struggling to balance practice with his home life as an important tournament approaches.
A millennial anti-heroine venturing into her past; navigating the whirlwind of adolescence. Dreamlike sequences of young love, after school house parties, and midnight woodland rites come together in this pseudo-autobiographical tale.
