Kryptic

Kryptic

A Canadian psycho-thriller about a woman’s search for a missing monster hunter and her growing realization that she is inescapably linked to the creature being pursued.

Kay is in trouble. A strange encounter in the woods has left her with no memory. Only one thing is certain: she is the spitting image of missing monster hunter, Barb Valentine. When an intruder breaks into her house, she runs, with no idea where she’s going; but she knows her only chance to reconnect is to shed more light onto Barb’s mysterious disappearance. Random encounters seem to point her in the right direction, but what was hoped to be a journey of self-discovery gradually becomes a hunt for the monster itself. Director Kourtney Roy’s visionary debut feature, shot in British Columbia, takes us into the heart of Canadian sasquatch country, which serves as a backdrop for this offbeat psychological thriller.

Director Q&A with Kourtney Roy

Kourtney Roy works extensively as an independent photographer and filmmaker in the art world, as well as the advertising world of print and video. Her photographs have garnered many prizes and grants, including the Prix Picto in 2007, the Emily Award ECUAD in 2012, the Prix Carte Blanche PMU/Le Bal in 2013 and Pernod Ricard’s prestigious Carte Blanche in 2018. In 2019 she won the best experimental film award at the Brest European Short Film Festival with her dark and dreamy short MORNING, VEGAS. Her second short SLICE OF HEAVEN premiered at the 2020 Raindance Film Festival in London. KRYPTIC is her debut feature film.

Screening With:

Witch Woman

Canadian Showcase

A dazzling, contemporary style of stop-motion animation is used to depict one of the oldest stories dating back to ancient times: men’s fear of women and of the power of motherhood. In the film, people and objects glide and stutter through space, fluid and staccato at the same time, as the reality around them warps and shifts.

5 Mins
Canada, 2022
Dir. Pixie Cram
Language: English

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