TIFF

Some films are over the top, some play it straight. But when a film tries to do both, things get messy.

A tender quest for the truth, and a balance between clashing cultures.

Horror has a way of using cinema like a blade. Sometimes the cuts are hard, fast, and violent. The viewer is left a bloody and pleading mess. Other times, the dagger is slipped in gently, easily, almost unnoticeably…until it is twisted, and at that point there’s no point in pleading. Rose Glass’ debut feature, SAINT…

A long time ago, a man went on television and taught us all that we had value in this world, and that if we chose to speak, he would listen to us even if nobody else world. Many years later, we are forgetting his lessons – convincing one another that we are not valuable to…

On the anxieties of remaining inside, and the strange adventures that await outside.