After a few years absence, Evan unexpectedly returns one night to face his now-famous former bandmates. The surprise reunion is bittersweet, in this intimate depiction of the knotty complexities of relating to old friends after everything has changed.
We Forgot to Break Up is a 2017 Canadian short drama film directed by Chandler Levack. Adapted from the novel Heidegger Stairwell by Kayt Burgess, the film centres on Evan (Jesse Todd), a former rock musician reintroducing himself to his ex-bandmates for the first time since abandoning the band and coming out as a trans man-
The film’s cast also includes Cara Gee, Grace Glowicki, Steven McCarthy, Mark Rendall, Dov Tiefenbach and Sofia Banzhaf.
The film premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. It won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Whistler Film Festival.