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Canada’s creepiest little production studio, Black Fawn Films, have been on a real roll lately. Earlier this year their supernatural Horror from writer/director Chad Archibald It Feeds (a great indie scare fest for fans of Lights Out and Insidious, starring Twilight‘s Ashley Greene) hit theatres after scaring the pants off of everyone at Panic Fest. And now, the hometown team returns to Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival with The Undertone, a slow burn that really delivers the goods and crafts some of the year’s scariest sequences with nothing more than a microphone and your imagination’s ability to totally f*ck you up.

Written and directed by Ian Tuason, in his directorial debut, The Undertone follows Evy (Nina Kiri), a young woman completely isolated from the outside world while caring for her dying mother. Evy‘s only real escape from the day-to-day gloom is her...

The Undertone Photo: Fantasia International Film Festival

A comfortable family home becomes a site of terror when a podcast co-host listens to what might be demonically attenuated audio files in Ian Tuason’s The Undertone. The film, which makes highly effective use of old horror tricks, premièred at Fantasia on Monday 28 July, and the following day I discussed it with Ian and his star Nina Kiri.

“It started when I was writing a scripted narrative podcast,” Ian says, “so that's what The Undertone was initially. It was two podcasters doing their regular weekly podcast episodes, talking about creepypastas. And then my parents got sick, and I was a caregiver to both of them.

“You know, all my life, I've been wondering why The Exorcist was so scary. That's the scariest movie that I've ever seen, and it traumatised me as a kid. I'm Catholic, so it really messed me up.

Every now and again, as technology advances and offers improved options in sound and vision, horror benefits from going back to the basics. The Undertone, which screened as part of Fantasia 2025, is a simple story with a single location and a small cast, but it’s satisfying to watch because the team behind it really understand their craft. Furthermore, if you’re somebody who enjoys the lingering thrill of struggling to get to sleep after a scary movie, nothing really beats watching one set in a domestic space.

The house in question – actually director Ian Tuason’s own, but much transformed – is home to Evangeline, known as Evy (played by The Handmaid’s Tale star Nina Kiri) and her mother (Michèle Duquet). The latter is bedbound and seems to be permanently sunk into a light coma. Evy takes good care of her, but as time goes on, it’s difficult to tell.

Sound is everything in The Undertone. It’s a film about a horror podcaster, so it makes sense that the sound design plays an important role. It’s more than that, though; more so than any other recent horror film, The Undertone lives and dies on how sound and silence is used.

And it is used incredibly well.

The film follows Evy Babic (Nina Kiri), a horror podcaster who has moved home to care for her dying mother (Michèle Duquet). Mama is very near death: she hasn’t eaten or drunk anything for several days and a nurse clarifies to Evy to keep an ear out for the “death rattle” that will signal her mother’s impending death.

In between changing soiled sheets and talking to her mother, Evy hops on mic to chat with Justin, her co-host on All Things Creepy. Justin is the believer and Evy is the skeptic,...

Slaterverse Pictures and Black Fawn Films have unveiled the atmospheric new trailer and theatrical poster for The Undertone ahead of its sold-out world premiere at Fantasia.

Nina Kiri, Michèle Duquet, and Kris Holden-Ried star.

The Undertone follows the host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast who moves into her dying mother’s house to be her primary caregiver. When she receives audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing paranormal noises, she realizes the woman’s story mirrors her own. Each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.

The new horror movie marks the feature film debut of writer/director Ian Tuason.

“I think what makes this movie powerful, beyond its elements of horror, is the deep and vulnerable place it came from,” explains star Nina Kiri. “It takes a lot of courage to write something based on a painful and terrifying experience. Ian’s openness,...

Ahead of its world premiere at the 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival, Slaterverse Pictures and Black Fawn Films have released the brand new trailer and theatrical poster for the highly anticipated horror film The Undertone. The film, which follows a podcast host taking care of her dying mother, marks the feature film debut of writer/director Ian Tuason and stars Nina Kiri, and Kris Holden-Ried (The Umbrella Academy).

The Undertone follows the host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast who moves into her dying mother’s house to become her primary caregiver. When her podcast is sent 10 strange audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing paranormal noises, she realizes the woman’s story mirrors her own as each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.

Watch the terrifying new trailer now:

“This film was born from the grief and love I carried for my mom in her final days,...

While the oeuvre of Toronto director David Cronenberg, the maestro of body horror, has inspired generations of Canadian filmmakers (including his progeny) and continues to do, Montreal’s Fantasia Festival and its Frontières Market event put them face-to-face with the global genre community – not to mention rabid local audiences – in a red-carpet-free cinema hotzone.

10 years in the making, Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s “Death Does Not Exist” (“La mort n’existe pas”), his third animated film and the only Canadian feature to world-premiere at Cannes this year, receives its North American and local premiere July 17.

Dufour-Laperrière has made all his animated films with the same small team out of the Montreal studio he runs with his brother Nicolas. “We’re coming from the Quebec film scene, which has a strong relationship with documentary, animation, alternative fiction, alternative means of production,” he told Variety.

“The subject matter [of ‘Death Does Not Exist’] might be difficult, but it is made with total honesty,...

The #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days Challenge Returns for Its 6th Year: "Spooky Sarah’s annual horror movie challenge, the #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days challenge is back like a horror movie sequel. Born out of boredom during the lockdown phase of Covid, the challenge has grown exponentially and is an annual tradition among participants. It encourages folks to set aside watching only their comfort watches during spooky season and find new favorites from films they haven’t seen before. In addition to hosting a Discord server for chatting and giveaway opportunities, there are watch parties as schedules permit.

The guidelines for this challenge are as follows:

The challenge runs from August 1st through October 31st. The goal is to watch at least 100 horror movies in this time period. The films must be new to you. In other words, you have never seen it. Films must be at least 45 minutes to count. Films must be classified...

Slaterverse Pictures and Black Fawn Films have released a first look at their highly

anticipated horror film, The Undertone. The film stars Nina Kiri (The Handmaid’s Tale), Michèle Duquet (The Virgin Suicides), and Kris Holden-Ried (The Umbrella Academy), who has recently joined the cast. The first look at the film accompanies the announcement that The Undertone will have its World Premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 27, 2025, in Montreal, Canada.

Produced by Dan Slater (Slaterverse) and Cody Calahan (Black Fawn Films), The Undertone follows the host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast who moves into her dying mother’s house to become her primary caregiver. When her podcast is sent 10 strange audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing paranormal noises, she realizes the woman’s story is a mirror of her own, while each new recording scratches at her sanity and draws her into a fate she cannot escape.

The Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its upcoming 29th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 16 through August 3, 2025, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screens and events at Montréal’s Cinéma du Musée and Bbam! Gallery.

Additionally, Fantasia has announced that it’ll be presenting a Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award to animator and director Genndy Tartakovsky, as well as musical icon Danny Elfman. The festival will also present the Canadian Trailer Blazer Award to actor Sheila McCarthy, and the Denis-Héroux Award to producer Anne-Marie Gélinas. Lloyd Kaufman will also receive the inaugural Indie Maverick Award for his decade-long dedication to the weird, gross, and wild.

The festival website is now live with the complete lineup of over 125 features and 200+ shorts available to be explored. Ticket pre-sales open at 10:00 Am on July 4, 2025.

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The Fantasia International Film Festival is back and celebrating its 29th edition with another densely packed slate of events and programming running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas and presented by Mels, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

The festival website is now live with the complete lineup of over 125 features and 200+ shorts available to be explored. Ticket pre-sales open at 10:00Am on July 4.

The festival’s final wave of programming has arrived, bringing with it the closing night film and a slew of highlights. The latest from legendary animator Genndy Tartakovsky, new adult comedy Fixed, has been designated as the official closing film of the this year’s festival. Troma documentary Occupy Cannes chronicles the Troma Team’s voyage to Cannes, and the company’s founder (and creator of The Toxic Avenger), Lloyd Kaufman,...

Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Fixed,” from Sony Pictures Animation, an R-rated dog sex comedy bound for Netflix later this summer, will close Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival.

The news comes as Fantasia unleashed Thursday its third and final wave of feature films – over 125 features unspool from July 16 to Aug. 3, 2025— as well as details of its competitions and career-celebrating awards, the Fantasia Retro lineup and a rowdy pack of free daytime panels, launches and masterclasses.

The full programming schedule also goes live July 3; tickets go on sale July 4.

At separate events, Tartakovsky and composer Danny Elfman will be feted with a Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award. Elfman’s award event includes a special screening of 1993 classic “The Nightmare Before Christmas” preceded by the world premiere of Eddie Alcazar’s animated short “Bullet Time,” both scored by Elfman.

Also screening opening night, Lee Chang-hee (“The Vanished’) and Yusron Fuadi’s class-divide crime...

Madeline Brewer is opening up about her upcoming wedding to cinematographer Jack Thompson-Roylance and how the cast of The Handmaid’s Tale will be involved.

The 33-year-old actress got engaged back in January 2024 and she’s planning a July 2025 wedding in England.

Madeline revealed that she initially wasn’t going to invite many people from her Handmaid’s Tale family, but she recently changed her mind.

“I just was doing some rounds of invites to my wedding the other day and I was like, ‘I need to invite more of my friends from The Handmaid’s Tale,’” she told People. “Just for the fact that I didn’t initially because they all live in LA, or it’s a big ask to ask them all to come here. But I was like, ‘These are my people. These are some of my closest friends.’”

Madeline also revealed the two co-stars who will be bridesmaids in the wedding!

There were always certain characters from The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood that we knew would need to come to life on the screen. They were characters mentioned throughout Offred’s story in the novel, but they never got a voice of their own. Alexis Bledel took on the role of one of them, taking on the role of Ofglen, who we would learn was actually called Emily.

From the beginning of the series, Emily’s story was harrowing. She was made a Handmaid after trying to flee America for Canada, where her wife and son were citizens of. Since she held an American passport, she was stopped at the border, and so started her harrowing ordeal that would lead to mutilation, a time in the toxic colonies, and much more.

The Handmaid’S Tale - “The Handmaid’s Tale” - June reflects on her experiences in Gilead and decides what to do next.

There were many callbacks to earlier episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale in the series finale. While the locations are somewhat easy to get, it’s not always that easy to get former cast members. Well, the series did it, and was able to keep these cameos a complete surprise — even from those of us who saw some of the filming!

Caution: This post contains Spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale series finale.

The final episode quickly picked up with the fall of Gilead in Boston. The Guardians had to pull back, meaning that the state of Massachssets was free from Gilead control and back under American law. This allowed one character who hasn’t been seen since the end of the fourth season make a return.

There were two characters last seen earlier in The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 that were more of a surprise in the series finale. After all, these two cameos,...

[This story contains specific spoilers from The Handmaid’s Tale series finale, titled “The Handmaid’s Tale.”]

While looking into a window marked with the words, “Freedom,” June (Elisabeth Moss) and viewers of The Handmaid’s Tale heard a familiar voice.

“Blessed be the fruit.”

The voice belonged to Alexis Bledel, who returned as Emily in the series finale of the Hulu series, which began streaming Tuesday.

Her arrival was as much of a surprise to June (Elisabeth Moss) as it is to the audience who hasn’t seen the Og handmaid since Bledel left the series after season four. Bledel, an original star who earned four nominations for her role on the Hulu dystopian series, departed without a specific explanation.

While the fifth season was in production, Bledel had said, “After much thought, I felt I had to step away from The Handmaid’s Tale at this time. I am forever grateful to [showrunner] Bruce Miller for writing such...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 6, Episode 10.

And just like that, Bruce Miller’s TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel has officially taken its final bow. In six seasons and 65 episodes, viewers watched June Osborne go from a frantic but courageous handmaid into the leader of a rebellion against the patriarchal, totalitarian society of Gilead.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” showrunners Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang unpacked the finale’s biggest moments with TheWrap, including those heartwarming surprise returns, June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) and Luke Osborne’s (O-t Fagbenle) tender farewell, Serena Wharton’s (Yvonne Strahovski) apology and much more.

In Episode 10, titled “The Handmaid’s Tale,” June’s years-long worth of efforts took down Gilead’s reign over Boston, returning the city to U.S. territory. As the last bits of Gilead’s hold on her home burn up in flames, memories of Nick Blaine fall onto her like ashes.

Black Fawn Distribution has announced the launch of a new international sales arm that will fall under the company’s banner. With a strong foundation in Canadian genre cinema, this new venture will debut at this year’s Marché du Film in Cannes. To kick off this new chapter, Black Fawn Distribution has recently secured world sales rights for Gabriel Carrer’s stylish revenge thriller Death Cycle as well as the highly anticipated psychological horror The Undertone. Both films will be made available to the global market this week at Cannes.

Renowned director Gabriel Carrer (For The Sake Of Vicious) returns with Death Cycle, a gritty new feature film starring Matthew Ninaber (Psycho Goreman) and Kristen Kaster (Shudder’s Death Valley). The film is produced by Latefox Pictures, Chronovisor Images, and Highrise Studios.

The Undertone is the highly anticipated feature film debut from auteur director Ian Tuason, starring Nina Kiri...

Deadline had the exclusive this morning, but we can now share with you that our friends at Black Fawn Distribution are launching their own sales arm at Marche du Film this week. The first two films on their docket will be Gabriel Carrer's upcoming revenge horror, Death Cycle, a film that we have mentioned once or twice here. The other is a debut feature film called The Undertone, from director Ian Tuason. As first revealed by Deadline, Nina Kiri stars as a the host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast, living in her dying mother’s house as her primary caregiver, whose haunted by a series of audio recordings with paranormal noises, which comes to realize mirror her own experiences. We...

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Exclusive: Canadian genre specialist Black Fawn Distribution has launched an international sales arm which is making its debut at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film.

It kicks off its activities with Gabriel Carrer’s revenge thriller Death Cycle and psychological horror The Undertone.

The new film from Carrer stars Matthew Ninaber (Psycho Goreman) and Kristen Kaster (Shudder’s Death Valley).

Kaster plays a woman coming to terms with the death of her sister, whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious man, determined to solve a string of murders committed by a motorcycle-riding killer.

It is produced by Latefox Pictures, Chronovisor Images and Highrise Studios.

The Undertone is the feature film debut of auteur director Ian Tuason, whose short films include Continuity Problems and The Closet.

As first revealed by Deadline, Nina Kiri stars as a the host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast, living in her dying mother’s house as her primary caregiver, whose haunted by a series of audio recordings with paranormal noises, which comes to realize mirror her own experiences.

The film is produced by Black Fawn Films, Slaterverse Pictures and Kino Studios.

Initially founded as a Canadian film distribution company, Black Fawn Distribution’s dedication to genre films has led it to become a respected leader in its local film market.

Its expansion into the international marketplace is designed to help genre filmmakers gain international exposure, granting them access to wider audiences and a better opportunity to reach an ever-hungry horror community.

“As filmmakers ourselves, we understand that any film’s success revolves around great storytelling but, these same films also need fair and transparent distribution strategies that can maximize revenues for those bringing these stories to life,” said Company President Chad Archibald.

“Economic pressures have left a lot of filmmakers and their investors facing diminishing returns and that directly impedes their ability to create new projects. We’re hoping we can help change that dramatically.”

Supported by Black Fawn Distribution’s skilled in-house promotional and design team, the venture will be dedicated to streamlining the overall marketing approach for each individual film, reducing the overall distribution costs typically charged back to filmmakers.

“Filmmaking is a highly collaborative process, and we believe that should be extended to the sales and distribution side of the business as well,” said Black Fawn Distribution’s Operations Manager Cf Benner.

“Our company has always put filmmakers first and we’re excited to apply the Black Fawn blueprint to the sales market. A healthy ecosystem for filmmakers benefits the entire industry, and we’re committed to nourishing that ecosystem as much as we can.”...

Nina Kiri has played the character Alma on 27 episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale, and now it has been announced that she has the lead role in a horror film called The Undertone, which just wrapped production. The image above shows Kiri on the set of the film with writer/director Ian Tuason, who is making his feature debut with this project after several years of making short films.

Coming our way from Slaterverse Pictures, Black Fawn Films, and Kino Studios, The Undertone follows the host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast, who moves into her dying mother’s house to be her primary caregiver. When her podcast is sent 10 audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing paranormal noises, she realizes the woman’s story is a mirror of her own and each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape. Kiri’s character Evy is...

“The Handmaid’s Tale” actress Nina Kiri will be the only on-screen character in The Undertone, Deadline reports.

Production on the indie horror feature just wrapped in Canada under writer-director Ian Tuason, making his feature debut.

Kiri stars as the host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast who moves into her dying mother’s house to be her primary caregiver. When she receives audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing paranormal noises, she realizes the woman’s story mirrors her own. Each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.

Other known actors are expected to be added as voice over characters.

“With The Undertone, I’m crafting a horror experience that doesn’t just evoke fear—it engulfs you in it, using immersive sound design to make silence as terrifying as the unknown,” said Tuason. “Inspired by my own experience as a caregiver, the film...

Exclusive: Canadian outfits Slaterverse Pictures and Black Fawn Films have wrapped production on horror feature The Undertone, starring Nina Kiri (The Handmaid’s Tale).

The Undertone follows the host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast, who moves into her dying mother’s house to be her primary caregiver. When her podcast is sent 10 audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing paranormal noises, she realizes the woman’s story is a mirror of her own and each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.

Kiri’s is the only character to appear on screen in the movie but other known actors are expected to be added as voice over characters. The Undertone marks the feature debut of writer/director Ian Tuason.

Pic is produced by Dan Slater and Cody Calahan and is executive produced by Chad Archibald, Daril Fannin, Brit MacRae, Anthony Eu, Douglas Lee, Al Akdari,...

Exclusive: Canadian Filmmaker Mélanie Charbonneau has rolled cameras on her sophomore feature Out Standing, which will shoot on location in Montreal, Quebec, and Hamilton, Ontario, throughout April and May.

The pic stars Nina Kiri ((The Handmaid’s Tale) alongside Vincent Leclerc (The Revenant) and Antoine Pilon (Matthias & Maxime). Rounding out the cast are Adrian Walters (Star Trek: Discovery), Stephen Kalyn (Essex Country), Noah Parker (30 Vies), Anthony Therrien (Falcon Lake), and Nicolas Fontaine (Victoire).

The film follows Officer Sandra Perron, who at the height of a brilliant career with the Armed Forces, resigns unexpectedly. The brass launch an investigation that revs up when a photo circulates of Sandra in uniform tied to a tree apparently unconscious. This was not how the career of the first female officer in the Canadian infantry was supposed to end. Besieged by journalists, struggling to adapt to civilian life, and pursued by the investigation, she denies...

Fingernails is a sci-fi romance that explores the concept of using a controversial technology to prove true love between partners. The film features an impressive cast including Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White, and is directed by Christos Nikou. Fingernails premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and is set for a limited theatrical release followed by streaming on Apple TV+.

If there was a scientific test that proved whether you and your partner were in love, would you take it? This is the question asked in the latest trailer for the sci-fi romance, Fingernails, which sees Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White forming a warped love triangle in this playful meditation on romance. Check out the newly released trailer for Fingernails below:

Alongside the latest look at Fingernails, you can check out the official synopsis below:

“Anna (Jessie Buckley) and Ryan (Jeremy Allen White) have found true love.

Some people say love is a battlefield, but what if there was a scientific solution to determining your compatibility with your chosen partner? Would the results confirm your evolution from lust to emotional adoration? Could you discover if the person you’re with is better suited for someone else? Some people would prefer to remain in blissful ignorance, but in Apple TV+‘s Fingernails trailer, love gets tested, and the results could destroy even the strongest of bonds.

Christos Nikou directs Fingernails from a script he co-wrote with Stavros Raptis and Sam Steiner. The story focuses on Anna (Jessie Buckley) and Ryan (Jeremy Allen White), a couple who believe they’ve found true love, and a controversial new technology proves it. There’s just one problem. Anna is curious to know if the results are accurate. So, she takes a position at a love testing institute, where she meets Amir (Riz Ahmed), and sparks fly.

"I think relationships should be worked on every day!" Apple has revealed an official trailer for the indie romantic drama Fingernails, arriving for viewing in November this fall. This just premiered at both the 2023 Telluride & Toronto Film Festivals, with stops at the San Sebastián, Zurich, Hamptons, and London Film Fests next. If there was a scientific test that proved whether you and your partner were in love, would you take it? From director Christos Nikou comes Fingernails, a playful meditation on love starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, Luke Wilson, Nina Kiri, & Annie Murphy. In the film, Anna (Buckley) and Ryan (White) have found true love. It's been proven by a controversial new technology. There's just one problem: Anna still isn't sure about it. Then she takes a position working at the love testing institute, meets Amir there, and develops feelings. What happens next? Fingernails is the second...

Escalation is an action drama film directed by Jimmy Mak from a screenplay by Brett Caron and Matthew Nayman. The action film follows the story of a former police officer who must put aside his anger at the force and ask for the help of a younger detective in order to catch his brother’s killer. Escalation stars Chris Mark, Nina Kiri, Cindy Sampson, and George Tchortov. So, if you liked Escalation here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Synopsis: Christian Wolff (Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town Cpa office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (J.K. Simmons), starting to close in, Christian...

Apple TV's upcoming science fiction romance film Fingernails stars Riz Ahmed as Amir, who may willingly give up a fingernail to determine the accuracy of a machine's measurement of love.

Sources indicate that Fingernails will make its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, or TIFF, with a streaming and limited theatrical release date of November 3, 2023. The Fingernails script was co-written by the director, Christos Nikou, and writers Steve Steiner and Stavros Raptis, and produced by Dirty Pictures, the production house headed by actress Cate Blanchett. Jessie Buckley plays Anna, opposite Riz Ahmed's Amir and Jeremy Allen White's Ryan.

Related: Rogue One's Riz Ahmed Offers to Write Ms. Marvel Screenplay

Annie Murphy Also Stars in Fingernails

Annie Murphy of Schitt's Creek and Kevin Can F***k Himself and Luke Wilson, known for his roles in Idiocracy and The Royal Tenenbaums also star in Fingernails alongside Ahmed, Buckley, and White.

Nina Kiri, known for her role as Alma on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has joined the cast of dystopian sci-fi adventure “Absolution.”

The title will be brought onto the market at Cannes’ Marché du Film Frontières platform, featuring in its Proof of Concept strand.

The Serbian-Canadian actor is no stranger to genre, having appeared in “The Heretics,” “The Haunted House on Kirby Road” or “Let Her Out.” Soon, she will also be spotted in Christos Nikou’s “Fingernails” alongside Jessie Buckley.

Directed by Filip Kovacevic, “Absolution” – a co-production between Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro – takes place in a barren wasteland, far removed from the mythical city of gods, with only one human settlement left.

Under the leadership of a zealous priest, who started conducting human sacrifice rituals after experiencing a religious vision, people are dying out. But things start to change when his younger brother finds a mysterious young woman, buried in a strange capsule.

Swiss auteur Simon Jaquemet’s “Electric Child” joins Ukrainian sci-fi comedy “U Are the Universe,” and “We Are Zombies,” from heavily rated Canadian trio Rkss, as three potential highlights at this year’s Cannes Marché du Film’s Frontières Platform, organized with the Fantasia Film Festival.

Focusing on genre, the Frontières showcase is emerging as one of the Marché du Film’s biggest market plays, supercharged by this year’s milestone Oscar triumph of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” smart genre’s popularity among an emerging generation of filmmakers and its rising tide as one of the most resilient of independent movie market propositions.

For Rkss, it’s a return, having had great success with their previous “Turbo Kid,” which went on to Sundance, and won a bunch including at SXSW and Fright Fest.

“U Are the Universe,” deserves a special mention, given the sheer challenge of completing a project...

The Handmaid’s Tale Safe Trailer — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 5, Episode 10: Safe TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, Clea DuVall, O-t Fagbenle, [...]

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The Handmaid’s Tale Motherland Trailer — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 5, Episode 8: Motherland TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, Clea DuVall, O-t Fagbenle, [...]

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The Handmaid’s Tale No Man’s Land Trailer — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 5, Episode 7: No Man’s Land TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, [...]

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The Handmaid’s Tale Together Trailer — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 5, Episode 6: Together TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, Clea DuVall, O-t Fagbenle, [...]

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The Handmaid’s Tale Fairytale Trailer — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 5, Episode 5: Fairytale TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, Clea DuVall, O-t Fagbenle, [...]

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The Handmaid’s Tale Dear Offred Trailer — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 5, Episode 4: Dear Offred TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, Clea DuVall, [...]

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The Handmaid’s Tale Border Plot Synopsis, Director, and Air Date — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 5, Episode 3: Border plot synopsis, director, and air date have been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda [...]

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The Handmaid’s Tale Season 5 Trailer 2 — Hulu has released the second TV show trailer for The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 5. View here The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 5 teaser trailer. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline [...]

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The Handmaid’s Tale Season 5 Teaser Trailer — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 5 teaser trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, Clea DuVall, O-t Fagbenle, [...]

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Samizdat Pictures has tapped Jason Priestley to direct its suspense thriller Projekt M.

Inglorious Basterds actor Richard Sammel is already on board for a lead role in the Canada-Spain co-production about a psychologist sent to evaluate someone with special needs and special abilities and who is sequestered near a remote village.

Sammel will play a geneticist father, Dr. Karl Young, whose terminal illness triggers a domino of events. Projekt M will also star Nina Kiri, Peter Shinkoda and Pedro Miguel Arce, while La Casa de Papel star Darko Peric is in talks to join the cast.

“I am very excited to join the team for ...

Samizdat Pictures has tapped Jason Priestley to direct its suspense thriller Projekt M.

Inglorious Basterds actor Richard Sammel is already on board for a lead role in the Canada-Spain co-production about a psychologist sent to evaluate someone with special needs and special abilities and who is sequestered near a remote village.

Sammel will play a geneticist father, Dr. Karl Young, whose terminal illness triggers a domino of events. Projekt M will also star Nina Kiri, Peter Shinkoda and Pedro Miguel Arce, while La Casa de Papel star Darko Peric is in talks to join the cast.

“I am very excited to join the team for ...

Outside of production design, which it was on four times, “The Handmaid’s Tale” has ruled one other Emmy category: Best Drama Guest Actress. A three-time champ there, it could add a fourth award this year to put it one shy of the most wins in the category.

The Hulu drama won guest actress three years in a row from 2017-19 for Alexis Bledel, Samira Wiley and Cherry Jones. It’s currently tied at three victories with “The Practice,” which won for Beah Richards (2000), Alfre Woodard (2003) and Sharon Stone (2004). Only “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” has won more — the long-running procedural, which may never end at this point, holds the record with five wins, including four in a row: Amanda Plummer (2005), Leslie Caron (2007), Cynthia Nixon (2008), Ellen Burstyn (2009) and Ann-Margret (2010). Perhaps what’s even more remarkable about “Svu’s” run is that the voters decided they were completely done with the...

Rlje plans day-and-date release later this year.

Rlje Films has acquired North American rights from Concourse Media to Cannes Marché sales title and YA dystopian sci-fi I Am Mortal.

Sean Gunn, Eloise Smyth, Abraham Lewis, Nina Kiri and John Harlan Kim star in the film, set 200 years in the future when the human race has achieved immortality through a genetic vaccine and all war, violence and crime have been eradicated.

However behind the façade of the utopian society a small band of rebels plots to overthrow the status quo and reclaim the right to die. Rlje plans a day-and-date release...

Rlje plans day-and-date release later this year.

Rlje Films has acquired North American rights from Concourse Media to Cannes Marché sales title and YA dystopian sci-fi I Am Mortal.

Sean Gunn, Eloise Smyth, Abraham Lewis, Nina Kiri and John Harlan Kim star in the film, set 200 years in the future when the human race has achieved immortality through a genetic vaccine and all war, violence and crime have been eradicated.

However behind the façade of the utopian society a small band of rebels plots to overthrow the status quo and reclaim the right to die. Rlje plans a day-and-date release...

“The Handmaid’s Tale” fans are shouting from the rooftops that the recently concluded fourth season is one of its best yet. And that’s thanks in no small part to the show’s talented cast members. Hulu’s one-time Best Drama Series winner (2017) has claimed six acting trophies through the years for lead actress Elisabeth Moss, supporting actress Ann Dowd, guest actresses Alexis Bledel, Samira Wiley and Cherry Jones and guest actor Bradley Whitford. Now a whopping 19 of the Season 4 cast members are in contention for the upcoming 2021 Emmys, as they’ve officially been submitted on the academy’s performer ballot.

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Moss returns as June/Offred, who flees her villainous captors and journeys across fictional post-democratic America after successfully saving the lives of dozens of children in the previous season. For the first time, Joseph Fiennes...

The Handmaid’s Tale The Wilderness Trailer — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 4, Episode 10: The Wilderness TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, [...]

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The Handmaid’s Tale Progress Trailer — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 4, Episode 9: Progress TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, Clea DuVall, [...]

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“The further that we get away from the Gilead we’ve known, the closer Janine comes back to herself,” Madeline Brewer explains in respect of her character Janine Lindo in “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The fourth season of Hulu‘s Emmy Award-winning drama premiered with three episodes on April 28 and will conclude its 10-episode run on June 16. In our exclusive video interview (watch above), the actress expands on how her character, despite Gilead having “tried to extinguish her flame,” is “aware of her autonomy” in season 4.

The series is based on Margaret Atwood‘s 1985 novel of the same name, which is set in a dystopian near-future America, where women are enslaved as ‘handmaids’ due to plummeting birth-rates and forced to bear children for the ruling class in the new authoritarian Gilead theocracy. When viewers first meet Janine in the debut season, she is “operating entirely on a trauma response” and putting...

The Handmaid’s Tale Testimony Trailer — Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 4, Episode 8: Testimony TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Nina Kiri, Madeline Brewer, Alexis Bledel, Jordana Blake, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, Clea DuVall, [...]

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