Winter Movie Rec Series

This Winter Movie Rec was recommended in our February newsletter, we switched it up with a fictional film this time; Until Branches Bend! You might recognize some of the Okagana scenery and fruit. A beautiful drama debut by writer-director Sohpie Jarvis, this film is “set in the blistering heat of British Columbia’s seemingly peaceful Okanagan during its growing season, that examines how nature can interrupt our best-laid plans."

"Robin works as a grader for a cannery. When she discovers a peach that has been burrowed into by a beetle, she alerts her boss, who insists it’s probably nothing." But when her curiosity gets the best of her, it sets in motion a chain reaction that jeopardizes the economic stability of her town — as well as her social standing within it. What results is a tense, atmospheric vision of existential crisis blended with the mysterious, perpetual drama of our surroundings that together illuminate the fickleness of our relationship to nature itself."
(Ravi Srinivasan, TIFF) 

Until Branches Bend is available for rent on Vimeo, Google Play and Apple TV.