Stump the Guesser is a Canadian short film by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, which was released in 2020.
[1] A silent black-and-white film based on early Soviet cinema tropes, it stars Adam Brooks as a man who works as a guesser at the fair, but whose mindreading tricks suddenly begin to fail him; simultaneously, he meets a long-lost sister he never knew he had and falls in love with her, and sets out to disprove the theory of heredity in hopes of being able to marry her.
[2] The film premiered on February 25, 2020 at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.
[3] The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films in 2020.
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