{"id":2002178,"date":"2025-09-06T16:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2002178"},"modified":"2025-09-06T16:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:26:48","slug":"sktekmujuekatik-at-the-place-of-ghosts-director-reveals-how-its-subversive-to-introduce-big-ideas-like-intergenerational-trauma-into-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sktekmujuekatik-at-the-place-of-ghosts-director-reveals-how-its-subversive-to-introduce-big-ideas-like-intergenerational-trauma-into-h\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sk+te\u2019kmujue\u2019katik (At the Place of Ghosts)\u2019 Director Reveals How It\u2019s \u2018Subversive\u2019 to Introduce Big Ideas Like Intergenerational Trauma Into Horror Movies \u2014 TIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32352280\/\">Sk+te\u2019kmujue\u2019katik<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32352280\/\">At the Place of Ghosts<\/a>)\u201d is a simple story with a lot on its mind. At its core, writer-director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3249181\/\">Bretten Hannam<\/a>\u2019s tale follows two siblings (played by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7332959\/\">Blake Alec Miranda<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5569442\/\">Forrest Goodluck<\/a>) traveling through the titular haunted forest in order to exorcise some demons from their lives. But their journey involves profound moments with their past and future, examining how the Mi\u2019kmaw people, Indigenous to Nova Scotia, relate to the land and to each other. The film will have a chance to make an impact in its own country during its world premiere on Sept. 6 at this year\u2019s Toronto Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Hannam, who uses they \/ them pronouns, said they find genre films to be a way to draw people into a scary story and leave them thinking deeply about the ideas the filmmaker is interested in exploring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenre is a universal language, so in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSk+te\u2019kmujue\u2019katik (At the Place of Ghosts)\u201d is a simple story with a lot on its mind. 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