EEPHUS

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As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved baseball field, two New England recreational teams face off one last time.

Two baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adler’s Paint, have been meeting on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. These middle-aged sportsmen can’t run as fast as they used to or connect as reliably with a pitch, but their vigorous appetite for socializing, squabbling, and busting chops remains undiminished. After the county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for one final game. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players face the uncertainty of a new era. Lovingly laid in a vanished Massachusetts of the mid-1990s, Carson Lund’s poignant feature debut plays like a lazy afternoon. Named for a rarely-deployed curveball, EEPHUS is both a ribald comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who’s ever lamented their community slipping away.

Show your pride, sports fans! Wear your favourite baseball shirt or jersey to the film and receive a discount on drinks at the CUFF bar.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2024
Sydney Film Festival 2024
Filmfest München 2024
New York Film Festival 2024
New/Next Film Festival 2024
Vancouver International Film Festival 2024
Chicago International Film Festival 2024

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Carson Lund is a founding member of Omnes Films, an independent, Los Angeles-based filmmaking collective named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Film.” Lund marks his directorial debut with EEPHUS, which he also wrote and produced. The film premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight. Lund also served as cinematographer and producer of CHRISTMAS EVE AT MILLER’S POINT starring Michael Cera, which also premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight. Previously, Lund lensed and produced HAM ON RYE (2020) – which premiered internationally at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival and received critical acclaim from The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone. A New Hampshire native, Lund is also a musician and film critic.