
A community gathers to celebrate the unveiling of a public sculpture. The artist is thanked, the significance recognized, the head of the local arts council praised for her efforts in making this moment happen. But it seems a moment of surreal calm, which turns out to be prophetic. Some time later, a great bang shakes the land, and the sun disappears for a day. And when it returns across the earth, something has shifted. Rhayne Vermette, whose first feature Ste. Anne, an experimental drama set in her home province of Manitoba that won Best Canadian Feature at TIFF in 2021, returns to the festival with another strange odyssey in Levers. There must be something in the water or wind in that province that creates filmmakers that tap...
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