UNTIL BRANCHES BEND

By Sophie JARVIS

EXPERIMENTAL FOREST FILMS - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2022

A feature length psychological drama about a pregnant cannery worker who, after discovering what she believes to be an invasive insect in a peach, must convince her community that the danger it poses is very real.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2022
Discovery
Vancouver IFF 2022
True North, Best BC Film
Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2022
FIN - Atlantic FF 2022
Calgary IFF 2022
Cinefest Sudbury 2022
Solothurn FF 2022
Prix de Soleure
Beijing IFF 2023
Tiantan Award Section
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama, Environmental, First film
    • Countries
    • CANADA, SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sophie JARVIS
    • Writer(s)
    • Sophie JARVIS
    • Producer(s)
    • Tyler HAGAN (EXPERIMENTAL FOREST FILMS), Michela PINI (CINÉDOKKÉ SAGL), Sara BLAKE (CEROMA FILMS INC.), Magali GILLON-KRIZAJ (REIGN FILMS), Olga LAMONTANARA (CINÉDOKKÉ SAGL)
    • Synopsis
    • It’s the height of summer in the valley town of Montague. After years of suffering the effects of the crop-destroying burrow moth, farmers finally celebrate an abundant season. ROBIN (30) works overtime at the fruit packing house to support herself and her teenage sister. When she finds a strange bug in a peach, her boss DENNIS (45) tells her to keep quiet. Robin’s complicity weighs on her. It’s personal, too: she’s recently discovered that she is pregnant from a brief affair with Dennis at the beginning of the summer. Robin decides to investigate the bug on her own. Her research reveals a frightening possibility: the bug fits the description of a highly invasive species, long believed extinct. Robin goes against Dennis’ orders and blows the whistle.
    • Partners & financing
    • Telefilm Canada, Federal Office of Culture (Switzerland), CRAVE, Creative BC, RSI TV,
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Jul 05, 2021
    • End of shooting
    • Aug 13, 2021