WINNER: 2018 Cannes Film Festival - Palme D’Or Award

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family.

“The work of a master in full command of his art. A work of such emotional delicacy, you’re barely prepared when it knocks you sideways.” – Los Angeles Times

WEBSITE: http://www.magpictures.com/shoplifters/

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9382rwoMiRc

TICKETS AVAILABLE: www.nantucketdreamland.org or at Dreamland Box Office

SERIES STATEMENT: NFF Now is a year-round programming initiative by The Nantucket Film Festival and the Nantucket Dreamland Foundation featuring special screenings and the season’s best independent films. Don’t miss the upcoming NFF Now Screenings this winter and spring: January 17, February 12, March 19, and April 18. (Film title will be announced closer to the screening date.)

CONTACT:

Mystelle Brabbée

Executive Director | Nantucket Film Festival | mystelle@nantucketfilmfestival.org