Glasgow Film Festival Man from Reno

Dave Boyle’s award-winning murder mystery brings some fresh twists to the kind of classic film noir detective yarn that Dashiell Hammett might have penned. One foggy California night, Sheriff Del Moral (Pepe Serna) accidentally hits a man who subsequently vanishes from a hospital bed. In San Francisco, lonely Japanese novelist Aki Akahori (Ayako Fujitani) escapes a publicity tour for an impetuous fling with a handsome stranger who also disappears. Figuring out the connections between the two cases is the basis of a surprisingly touching, impressive low-budget production.