Until Branches Bend Review-- Across Canada Starting March 20, 2023

Shot on 16mm film and in the interior of British Columbia, Penticton, Keremeos, and Summerland, Until Branches Bend is a quiet & subtle tale of a young woman who finds a bug in a peach at the packaging plant where she works.

The tale is simple in its story, yet as it starts to move along it really gets you, the audience wondering how it will turn out.

The film has already won some awards and has been shown in the USA as well, pretty good for a small feature film. Robin(Grace Glowicki) decides to work through her break and continue to inspect the peaches on the line. She finds one with a wormhole in it and proceeds to open it with a knife, and out jumps a bug. She grabs a cup and immediately covers it and finds a jar to put it in.

She then takes it to her boss Dennis(Lochlyn Munro, When Time Got Louder, Riverdale) and he calls in the company's bug expert it's all brushed off and is told that it's nothing for them to worry about.

Robin not taking their word for it feels the need to have someone at the agricultural lab and gives him some photos as he is leaving the office. She then finds the plant shut down her next day at work and we can see by her expression, she feels responsible.

When word gets out that the shutdown is because Robin didn't want to be quiet about it and chose to speak up, she is now ostracized, basically from the community. She's heckled when she's out in public, and her tires are slashed when she is grocery shopping. She also has someone throw a brick through a window in her house.

The only person she has is her sister Laney(Alexandra Roberts, in her first feature film) who has now decided to go work at a cherry orchard to earn some money. Robin is all alone.

This is quite a solid first feature film from writer/director Sophie Jarvis(The Worst Day Ever, Medical Drama). It allows us to get to know characters and how something like this can affect a small community. The backlash that Robin feels is very real, we see first hand what it does to her, and yet she has a very big personal secret that she does not share with anyone but her sister Laney, near the end of the film that she is pregnant.

I look forward to what Sophie Jarvis does next.

UNTIL BRANCHES BEND SCREENING DETAILS:

ONTARIO: 

Waterloo, Landmark Cinemas 10 Waterloo, March 20, 2023 (one night only)

Orleans, Landmark Cinemas 10 Orleans, March 20, 2023 (one night only)

Kanata, Landmark Cinemas Kanata, March 20, 2023 (one night only)

Whitby, Landmark Cinemas 24 Whitby, March 20, 2023 (one night only)

Toronto, Revue Cinema, April 14-16, 18, 2023 - April 15 Q&A w/ Sophie Jarvis & Grace Glowicki

ALBERTA: 

Calgary, Landmark Cinemas Country Hills, March 20, 2023 (one night only)

Edmonton,  Landmark Cinemas 9 Edmonton City Centre, March 20, 2023 (one night only)

BRITISH COLUMBIA: 

New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, March 20, 2023 (one night only)

Kelowna, Landmark Cinemas Grand 10 Kelowna, March 20, 2023 (one night only)

Nanaimo, Landmark Cinemas Nanaimo, March 20, 2023 (one night only)

Penticton, Landmark Cinemas Penticton, March 20, 2023 (one night only) Q&A w/ Sophie Jarvis & Guests

Vancouver, VIFF Centre, March 24-30, 2023 - March 25th Q&A w/ Sophie Jarvis & Guests

Salmon Arm, Classic Cinema, May 27, 2023

MANITOBA: 

Winnipeg, Winnipeg Cinematheque, - March 29-30 & April 2, 5-6 2023

QUEBEC:

Montreal, Cinéma Moderne - April 8 (one night only) - Q&A w/ Sophie Jarvis & Antoine DesRochers

Below are some of the awards and festivals it has played at.

Calgary International Film Festival (2022)

RBC Emerging Canadian Artist Award [Nominee] Emerging Canadian Artist Sophie Jarvis

Canadian Screen Awards, CA (2023)

Canadian Screen Award [Nominee] Original Screenplay Sophie Jarvis

CMPA IndieScreen Awards (2022)

Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award [Winner]  Sara Blake, Magali Gillon-Krizaj, Tyler Hagan

Solothurn Film Festival (Solothurner Filmtage) (2023) Prix de Soleure [Winner]

Best Film Sophie Jarvis

SXSW Film Festival (2023)

SXSW Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award [Nominee]  Sophie Jarvis

Vancouver Film Critics Circle (2023)

VFCC Award [Nominee]

Best Female Actor in a Canadian Film  Grace Glowicki

VFCC Award [Nominee] Best Supporting Female Actor in a Canadian Film, Alexandra Roberts

VFCC Award [Nominee] One to Watch, Grace Glowicki

VFCC Award [Nominee] One to Watch, Sophie Jarvis

VFCC Award [Nominee] Best British Columbia Film

VFCC Award [Nominee] Best Director of a British Columbia Film, Sophie Jarvis

Vancouver International Film Festival (2022) Best BC Film [Winner], Sophie Jarvis

Magali Gillon-Krizaj

Sara Blake

Tyler Hagan

Michela Pini

Olga Lamontanara

Reign Films

Ceroma Films

Experimental Forest Films