MOM
Directed by Adam O-Brien | 95 min| USA/Canada | 2024
14+ (violence, disturbing content)
Starring: Emily Hampshire, François Arnaud, Christian Convery
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE! Meredith, abandoned by her family after a horrific incident at home, is left alone to relive, and relive, the darkest moments of her past. But a sinister entity is determined to keep them apart.
Emily Hampshire ('Schitt's Creek') delivers one of the year's best, most harrowing performances in a terrifying story of grief, fear, loneliness, and supernatural horror. Shocking and deeply unsettling, Mom is guaranteed to provide viewers with nightmare material for weeks.
FESTIVALS: 2024 Glasgow Frightfest, 2024 Frightfest UK
PRECEDED BY THE SHORT FILM:
Ethel
Directed by: Beatrice Jäggi | 8 min | Switzerland | 2024
Ethel discovers boxes with glittering clothes of her late mother, who was a figure skater. In the snowy forest she searches for the idyllic pond where her mother once taught her to skate. She wants to relive those memories, attempts to understand her mother’s passion. On the frozen pond Ethel, however, encounters the Bone Ice Princess, who challenges her to a dangerous dance on thin ice. Will Ethel survive this contest in one piece? A tale of letting go and growing up.