Arcadia (2012 film)

Arcadia is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Olivia Silver, produced by A Poisson Rouge Pictures and DViant Films. It won the Crystal Bears, Generation Kplus at 2012 Berlinale and the Grand Prize at the Cine Junior Festival.

Premise
Twelve-year-old Greta's dad Tom is moving the kids cross-country, promising a California paradise and packing half the household into a dented station wagon. Mom is supposed to join them later. But as they travel through forests, plains and deserts, stopping at fast food joints, shoddy motels, and a poor substitute for the Grand Canyon, Greta gradually realizes that her family is falling apart.

Cast

 * John Hawkes as Tom
 * Ryan Simpkins as Greta
 * Ty Simpkins as Nat
 * Kendall Toole as Caroline

Critical reception
Arcadia scored highly with critics, and played to sold out theaters at the Berlin Film Festival. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote: "Ms. Silver’s ability to translate the liminal into cinematic terms, to catch those moments between innocence and knowing, childhood and adulthood, unforgiving and forgiving, makes her someone to watch".

Awards and nominations

 * 62nd Berlin International Film Festival
 * Crystal Bear, Generation Kplus
 * 23rd Cine Junior Festival
 * Grand Prize at the Cine Junior Festival
 * "Grain à Démoudre" Prize (from young people aged 10–25 years)
 * 13th Woodstock Film Festival
 * Official selection