(Toronto) The Movie Infinity Pool by Toronto director Brandon Cronenberg is among the Canadian films screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
The sci-fi horror film featured in the Midnight category stars Alexander Skarsgard, Mia Goth and Cleopatra Coleman. The story follows two vacationers at an all-inclusive resort where a fatal accident exposes a “perverted subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors”.
The documentary Twice Colonizeda Greenland/Denmark/Canada co-production in English, Kalaallisut, Inuktitut with English subtitles, will also head to the festival next month in Park City, Utah.
Twice Colonized tells the personal journey of Inuit lawyer and activist Aaju Peter as she tries to reclaim her language and culture after the sudden death of her son. The documentary will participate in the World Film Documentary Competition.
supernatural drama My Pet, by director Jacqueline Castel who holds Canadian citizenship, will also compete in the Midnight category. It focuses on the budding romance of a teenage misfit and her darkest relationship-threatening secret.
The Longest Goodbye, a Canadian-Israeli co-production by New York director Ido Mizrahy, will also be screened as part of the World Film Documentary Competition. The film follows a NASA psychologist and his investigation of extreme isolation and its effects on astronauts.
A documentary directed by American filmmaker Davis Guggenheim titled Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie will premiere at the festival. The documentary explores the journey of Edmonton-born actor Michael J. Fox and his diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.
The Slamdance festival, which takes place simultaneously in Park City, will present the film The pace steps (Nut Jobs) by Montreal director Alexandre Leblanc in the narrative feature competition. It will also screen the film OKAY! The ASD Band Film directed by Toronto filmmaker Mark Bone.
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the festival will return to an in-person celebration that will run from January 19 to January 29.