A Man Imagined
6.7
Pushing at the limits of non-fiction cinema, A Man Imagined is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay. Made in close collaboration with 67-year-old Lloyd, this immersive documentary fable follows the jagged path of a decades-long street survivor, across harsh winters and blistering summers, as he sells discarded items to motorists, sleeps in junkyards and lapses into near-psychedelic reveries.
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Brian M. Cassidy Director · Melanie Shatzky Director Pablo Alvarez Mesa Editor
United States release August 31, 2024 · Produced in Canada
Production
ONF | NFB
Production
Canada
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Netherlands · January 25, 2024
Premiere · World Premiere - International Film Festival Rotterdam
United States · August 31, 2024
Premiere · Tallahassee Film Festival / Directors’ Choice Award
United States
October 3, 2024 · Premiere · New/Next Film Festival, Baltimore, Maryland
Australia
June 4, 2024 · Premiere · Doc Sydney Film Festival
Azerbaijan
October 1, 2024 · Premiere · DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival
Belgium
April 13, 2026 · Premiere · Ghent Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival, Tarkovski Grant Recipient
Canada
May 2, 2024 · Premiere · DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver
September 19, 2024 · Premiere · Calgary International Film Festival
October 25, 2024 · Premiere · Rendezvous with Madness Festival, Toronto
January 13, 2025 · Premiere · Semaine de la Critique de Montréal, Opening Night Film
Ecuador
October 16, 2024 · Premiere · Camara Lucida
Italy
November 26, 2024 · Premiere · Torino Film Festival
Mexico
July 19, 2024 · Premiere · Guanajuato International Film Festival
Norway
October 9, 2024 · Premiere · Mirage Film Festival
Spain
November 1, 2025 · Premiere · Maldito Festival de Videopoesia
Thailand
July 13, 2024 · Premiere · Signes de Nuit (10th Bangkok Edition)
Türkiye
May 7, 2025 · Premiere · Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
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