Podeswa also directed the television movie After The Harvest, starring Sam Shepard, which was the winner of the Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Direction and was nominated for nine Gemini Awards (Canada’s equivalent of the Emmy Award), including Best Director. It was nominated for nine Canadian Genie Awards, winning for Best Director, was the recipient of the Best Canadian Film Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and has been distributed in over 50 international territories.Įclipse, the story of ten characters looking for love in the ten-day period preceding a solar eclipse, was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Five Senses was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight section. Jeremy Podeswa director of the Fugitive Pieces, has the written, directed and co-producer of The Five Senses and Eclipse in the past. The lessons he learns become a legacy to Ben (Ed Stoppard), a child of survivors whose life intersects with Jakob’s in meaningful ways. Writing offers some relief, but it is not until he meets Michaela (Ayelet Zurer), a gentle soul who truly understands - and accepts - his pain, that Jakob allows himself to join the living. This terrible burden makes it impossible for him to live in the moment or to accept love when it is offered to him.
Yet he remains haunted by his parents’ death and the question of his sister’s fate. As he matures, Jakob (now played by Stephen Dillane) begins a new life, studying, writing, and eventually falling in love with Alex (Rosamund Pike), a beautiful young woman. Jakob spends the last years of the Occupation in Athos’ tender care.Īfter the war, Athos and Jakob immigrate to Canada, where Athos has accepted a teaching position with a University. Moved by the child’s plight, Athos boldly smuggles Jakob out of Poland and hides him in his home on the island of Zakynthos in Greece, also occupied by the Germans. He is found by Athos Roussos (Rade Sherbedgia), a Greek archaeologist working at a Polish dig site in Biskupin. Traumatized by this horrific event, Jakob sneaks out of his hiding place and struggles to survive. Nazi soldiers have murdered his parents and abducted his teenage sister, Bella.
Jakob’s story (Robbie Kay) begins in Poland in 1942, when he is nine years old. The film is based on the beloved and best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels. Fugitive Pieces tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is transformed by his childhood experiences during WWII.
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