A couple's secluded getaway is interrupted by a visit from a strange family who exposes them to the horrors that lie beyond the tree line.
Acting
Tanaya Beatty's silent, knowing dread—says everything without speaking.
Cinematography
BC wilderness as suffocating prison, not escape. Beautiful and wrong.
Direction
Sepanzyk wastes zero seconds. Every frame earns its place.
Director
Brian Sepanzyk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on traditional territory of the K'ómoks and Coast Salish peoples; the film's colonial haunting subtext lands differently knowing this.
The title refers to a narrow passage between mountains—geographically accurate to BC, metaphorically a birth canal or trap. Sepanzyk chose it before writing.
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