From writer/director/producer Casey Affleck, the indie feature Light of My Life, which is part survivalist drama and part coming-of-age story, follows a father (Affleck) and his 11-year-old daughter (Anna Pniowsky), as they navigate a desperate dystopian world where a plague has killed nearly all of the world’s females. As they live on rations and forage in the woods, far from the danger that men can present when it comes to survival, Rag’s dad tries to give his daughter an understanding of the world and its ethics, history and morality, at a time …

Today in Berlin, Casey Affleck unveiled his second film as writer-director, Light of My Life, and he admits it was a deeply personal story about parenting—one that was the polar opposite of his 2010 mockumentary I’m Still Here starring his buddy and then brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix. “That was a semi-documentary inspired by other things like Andy Kaufman,” the Oscar winning actor from Manchester by the Sea explains. “Here I wanted to try classical filmmaking and a story closer to who I am and to speak more about things I care about. “It evolved gradually …