AFI Thesis Film
Behind the Mask
Behind the Mask is a time-traveling, family drama set in the world of theater.
When a resentful daughter visits her estranged actor-father on his deathbed, he gives her a theater mask that magically transports her back to 1977 and the night that made him a star. As she navigates the spectacular, seedy world behind the curtain, she wrestles with her father’s faults, her deepest wounds and the impossible wish for closure. But will she risk changing the past — with all its potential consequences — in the hope of writing a better future?
Behind the Mask combines the unflinching emotional honesty of Ingmar Bergman with the fantasy and joy of Back to the Future in a heart-warming, wistful tale about the power of time, love, and forgiveness to heal our deepest wounds.
