Dead of Winter

Recently widowed, Barb (Academy Award winner Emma Thompson) travels through snowbound Northern Minnesota to scatter her deceased husband’s remains at the remote lake where they shared their first date. En route she discovers a teenage girl, kidnapped and held hostage in an isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere. With no phone service and hours from the nearest town, she has become the young girl's only hope for survival… but at what cost to herself?

What follows is a gripping descent into survival where every gust of wind and creak of wood tightens the noose. Thompson grounds the film with steel and vulnerability, while Judy Greer and Marc Menchaca radiate menace in roles that twist unpredictably. Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb’s script crackles with tension, and Kirk’s stark direction transforms snowbound isolation into a character of its own.

Screening from November 27 at Luna Leederville and Luna on SX.