The Threshing

For the Closing Night screening of The Threshing, audiences may purchase a film-only ticket at standard price or a ticket that includes access to a post-screening party for $25; $22 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $20 for FLC Members. All-Access Pass holders receive access to both Opening Night and Closing parties along with screenings. Party tickets are excluded from the 3+ Film Package.

Informed by the director’s own experience moving cross-country with his wife to work on a regenerative farm in Colorado, Sean Mannion’s sophomore feature brilliantly capitalizes on the lived-in authenticity of its location setting, and takes its place alongside contemporary genre classics Raw and Midsommar as a wickedly penetrating satire about the pitfalls of toeing the line when ideological commitment comes into conflict with personal choice. Struggling writer Franklin (Jean-Louis Droulers) gamely accompanies his idealistic partner Gwyn (Simone Grossman) when she accepts a coveted position living and working with an insular utopian farming collective, whose members are driven by a zealous, sustainability-minded philosophy with guidelines for existing “in harmony” with nature. Under the watchful eye of their newfound community’s unnervingly intense leader (Jared Kemp), the couple’s bond is tested as they navigate the commune’s unorthodox, dubiously humane—and increasingly ominous—practices. A Yellow Veil Pictures release.