Allen Sunshine

2024 • 81 minutes

About this movie

"Allen Sunshine" is winner of the 2024 Werner Herzog Film Award. "Allen Sunshine" tells the story of a former music mogul who retreats to an isolated lake-side home to grieve his famous wife's suicide. He copes by composing ambient-electronic music and by nurturing an unexpected friendship with two young boys whom he meets on the lake fishing. Throughout the course of his stages of grief, Allen encounters characters that remind him of what he's lost and forgotten, and what he hopes to gain and reconcile. "Allen Sunshine" is a movie about hope and optimism.