André Is an Idiot

André Is an Idiot
dir. Tony Benna/USA/2025/89 min

Unexpected, irreverent, and defiantly heartfelt, the film is a wildly  life-affirming film about death and about the strange clarity that arrives when time suddenly becomes finite. When André Ricciardi, a self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him, learns he is dying, he turns his final chapter into an experiment in radical honesty, humor, and curiosity. A lifelong iconoclast and ad-industry provocateur, André has never done anything the conventional way, and confronting mortality proves no different.

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projection time:
89 min
country/year:
USA /2025
director:
Tony Benna
original language of the film:
English
pictures:
Ethan Indorf
editor:
Tony Benna, Parker Laramie
production:
André Ricciardi, Tory Tunnell, Stelio Kitrilakis, Joshua Altman, Ben Cotner / A24, Sandbox Films, Safehouse Pictures
festivals and awards:
2025 – Sundance FF: Audience Award: U.S. Documentary and Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award, 2025 – Stockholm IFF
sections:
trigger warnings:
terminal illness
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