Hunting Daze

Jour de chasse

TIFF65: Greek Premiere

Nina, a young sex worker, joins a group of hunters residing in a remote cabin in the woods. Managing to become almost an equal member of this masculine microsociety due to her drive, she starts to experience a newfound sense of belonging. But their pack’s sensitive equilibrium is threatened by the arrival of a mysterious stranger, a black small time drug dealer. Shot in an exquisite manner, and intricately stylized, the film, both atmospheric and sardonic, dissects a series of topical social issues such as women empowerment, masculinity crisis, fear of Otherness and psychoanalytic repulsion, through the means only cinema can bestow. Investing in ambiguity and paying homage to Carpenter (by constructing a closed society which is threatened by otherness), this innovative parable extends the sense of suspense beyond the mechanisms of genre-cinema, reaching the innermost recesses of the human spirit.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Available at the Agora Market TIFF65.

Direction: Annick Blanc

Cinematography: Vincent Gonneville

Editing: Amélie Labrèche

Sound: Laurent Ouellette, Samuel Gagnon-Thibodeau

Music: Peter Venne

Actors: Nahéma Ricci, Bruno Marcil, Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi, Marc Beaupré, Alexandre Landry, Maxime Genois, Noubi Ndiaye

Production: A Midi La Nuit Production

Producers: Maria Garcia Turgeon, Annick Blanc

Costumes: Mélanie Garcia

Executive producer: Pierre Even

Make Up: Léonie Lévesque-Robert

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Canada

Production Year: 2024

Duration: 79'

Contact: Arthood Entertainment

Annick Blanc

Driven by her love for visually intriguing and innovative storytelling, Annick Blanc cofounded Midi La Nuit with Maria Gracia Turgeon. As a director, Hunting Daze (2024) is her first feature film. Her most recent short, The Colour of Your Lips (2019), has been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and won eight prizes (Austin Fantastic Fest, Solveig Anspach, Regard). Her second short film, Turn Off Before Living (2015) was shown at Dresden and Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. Her first short Nowhere Elsewhere (2010) garnered nine international prizes (Palm Springs Shortfest, Vienna Independent Short). As a producer, her first two features are Who Do I Belong To from Meryam Joobeur which premiered at the Berlinale Competition and her own feature, Hunting Daze premiering at SXSW. She produced more than 15 shorts, amongst them Brotherhood (2019 - Oscar nominee, Best Canadian Short TIFF) and Fauve (2018, Oscar nominee, Sundance Jury Prize), Plain and Simple (2016, FNC Grand Prize, TIFF), Surveillant (2011, Sundance, Golden Gate Award SFIFF), Acrobat (2012, Locarno IFF).