Event Description
Independent Film Series hosted by the MAG in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival and Red Deer Polytechnic.
Fall 2026 Film 1: At The Place of Ghosts (Sk+te’kmujue’katik)
Bretten Hannam
Canada | 2025 | 89m | English, French, Mi’kmaw | VVS Films | 14A
Reel Movie Mondays opens this fall with a film that refuses to sit still in one genre.
Mise’l and Antle were inseparable as kids and have not spoken in years. When a malevolent spirit from their shared past starts closing in, Mise’l returns to their home community to warn his brother, and the two set out on foot and by canoe into the forest that gives the film its name: a place where time comes unfixed, where memory and history refuse to stay in the past, and where the brothers will have to face what happened to them if they want it to stop.
Two-spirit L’nu filmmaker Bretten Hannam spent roughly a decade making this, following their breakthrough feature Wildhood. It moves between horror, fantasy, and family drama without ever settling, and it is a genuine ghost story that is also about Mi’kmaw understandings of the spirit world, where the living are surrounded by ancestors rather than separated from them. Hannam has said the title is a real place name in the territory, closer in meaning to a place of spirits, and connected to the Milky Way.
It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was named one of Canada’s Top 10. The score is by Jeremy Dutcher. The cinematography does a lot of the storytelling here, so this is one worth seeing on the big screen!
Please note: the film deals with childhood abuse and homophobic violence, and includes some frightening imagery.
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This screening is free to attend throughout the month of September as part of our celebration of Alberta Culture Days.
