Kardia weaves fiction and science to tell the story of Hope, a pathologist who embarks on a journey of reconciliation. Hope discovers that the experimental heart operation she underwent as a child has mysteriously linked her life with another. To unlock the secret of her past, Hope must revisit her childhood and explore regions of her life that have heart stopping results.
Direction
Su Rynard's delicate balance of cold science and warm humanity.
Acting
Mimi Kuzyk carries entire emotional arcs in stillness.
Cinematography
Medical imagery transformed into unexpected visual poetry.
Director
Su Rynard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rynard consulted real cardiac researchers, grounding the film's speculative science in actual 2000s-era stem cell and tissue engineering debates.
One of the rare Canadian films to receive TIFF's Canada First! spotlight, yet remained almost impossible to find for years—fitting for a movie about invisible connections.
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