Rumours

Rumours

TIFF65: Greek Premiere
In their latest film, Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson dance between black comedy, political satire, dystopian horror, survival thriller, and soap opera with anarchic energy. This darkly comic take on a disaster we’ve lived through without even noticing unfolds at an emergency G7 summit, where world leaders must confront a global crisis that remains unnamed. As they attempt to craft a statement to calm public panic, they slowly unravel, becoming caricatures lost in a treacherous forest. Once symbols of power, they are reduced to powerless figures, stumbling through their own fears. A delirious, surreal journey, a biting satire on institutional collapse and the existential void of a world on the brink of self-destruction.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
Script: Evan Johnson
Cinematography: Stefan Ciupek
Editing: John Gurdebeke, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
Sound: John Gurdebeke, Clare Dobson, Dave Rose, Graham Rogers, Martin Lee, Bálint Zándoki
Music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Actors: Cate Blanchett, Roy Dupuis, Charles Dance, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Alicia Vikander, Denis Ménochet, Takehiro Hira
Production: Buffalo Gal Pictures, Thin Stuff, Walking Down Broadway, Maze Pictures
Producers: Liz Jarvis, Philipp Kreuzer, Lars Knudsen
Co-producers: Judit Stalter, Simon Ofenloch
Costumes: Bina Daigeler
Production Design: Zosia Mackenzie
Executive producer: Ari Aster, Cate Blanchett, Phyllis Laing, Jörg Schulze, Joe Neurauter, Devan Towers, Tyler Campellone, Lina Flint, Mary Aloe, Gillian Hormel, Andrew Karpen, Kent Sanderson, Adrian Love, Michael O'Leary, Stefan Kapelari, Moritz Peters, Blair Ward, Anders Erdén, Lauren Case, Eric Harbert, Michael Werry, George Heuser, Jacob Phillips, Stephen Griffiths, Christopher Payne, Dave Bishop, George Hamilton, James Pugh, Janina Vilsmaier, Fred Benenson, Morwin Schmookler, George Rush
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Canada, Germany
Production Year: 2024
Duration: 104'
Distribution in Greece: Tanweer
Contact: Park Circus

Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin is an installation artist, lecturer at Harvard, author, and filmmaker, the director or co-director of twelve feature-length movies, including The Forbidden Room (2015), My Winnipeg (2007), The Saddest Music in the World (2003). He has also mounted over 70 performances of his films worldwide featuring live elements – orchestra, sound effects, singing and narration. Since 2011 Maddin has collaborated with Galen and Evan Johnson under the banner of Development Ltd., their Winnipeg-based filmmaking collective.

Filmography

1992 Careful
1997 Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
2002 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
2003 Cowards Bend the Knee
2003 The Saddest Music in the World
2007 My Winnipeg (doc)
2011 Keyhole
2014 Puberty (short, co-direction)
2015 The Forbidden Room (co-direction)
2017 The Green Fog (co-direction)
2018 Accidence (short, co-direction)
2020 Stump the Guesser (short, co-direction)
2020 The Rabbit Hunters (short, co-direction)
2024 Rumours (co-direction)

Evan Johnson

Evan Johnson is a writer and filmmaker living in Winnipeg. He studied film and philosophy at the University of Manitoba and worked at Winnipeg's Rug Doctor chemical bottling plant before being discovered there by Guy Maddin. He co-directed his first feature, The Forbidden Room (2015), with Maddin, and since then has been writing/directing with Maddin and his brother.

Filmography

2014 Puberty (short, co-direction)
2015 The Forbidden Room (co-direction)
2017 The Green Fog (co-direction)
2018 Accidence (short, co-direction)
2020 Stump the Guesser (short, co-direction)
2020 The Rabbit Hunters (short, co-direction)
2024 Rumours (co-direction)

Galen Johnson

Galen Johnson is an filmmaker and designer based in Winnipeg, Canada. In 2012, he worked as production designer, title designer, and composer on The Forbidden Room, for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for production design/art direction. He has since gone on to co-direct Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015), The Green Fog (2017), Accidence (2017) and Stump the Guesser (2020) all with Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson.

Filmography

2017 The Green Fog (co-direction)
2018 Accidence (short, co-direction)
2020 Stump the Guesser (short, co-direction)
2020 The Rabbit Hunters (short, co-direction)
2020 Thursday (short doc)
2024 Rumours (co-direction)