2009 Tokyo Audience Award
2009 Atlantic Film Fest. (Halifax) Audience Award
Leon Bronstein is not your average high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term "student union". But will our young hero ever inspire his fellow students to care about anything? And will he ever find his Lenin? Festival-goers will recall director Jacob Tierney as the lead actor of Terence Davies' 1995 film The Neon Bible.
