When American director Trey Edward Shults decided to direct his first feature film, he turned to those he could most rely on to get it made: his family. “Krisha”, shown at the Cannes festival, is based on events that happened to Shults’s family over the years. The film stars numerous family members, including his mother, Robyn Fairchild, and his aunt, Krisha Fairchild in the eponymous title role. Krisha returns to the family to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday after years away, hoping to make amends for past troubles she has caused.
The film even features Shults’s maternal grandmother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s. During shooting, she was not aware she was appearing in a film.
