After joining us for Bleak Week 2024 alongside his magnum opus Margaret, and again earlier this year for the 25th anniversary of his debut feature You Can Count on Me, Kenneth Lonergan returns to the Paris for a Q&A following Manchester By the Sea, for which Lonergan scored his third Oscar nomination and first win for Best Original Screenplay, on Saturday, June 14. Actor Lucas Hedges will join Lonergan on stage for the conversation.

After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 16-year-old, and is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was born and raised. Bonded by the man who held their family together, Lee and Patrick struggle to adjust to a world without him.