Directed by Erin Buelow

Logline: A young songwriter seeks out her folk idol in a sleepy lakeside village, only to become enmeshed in a secretive society whose rituals safeguard the threshold between worlds.

Synopsis: Melding dream-logic and wry mystery, Arutinae melts the seams between sleeping and waking worlds. We follow up-and-coming indie musician Billie Christie on a pilgrimage to the former home of her musical idol, Inge Shielke, in the lakeside village of Matlock. Here Billie meets the matriarch of an eccentric local family who preside over the secrets of the lake—a polluted portal to the parallel world of Arutinae.

Distribution Contact: WFG

More Details

RUNTIME: 159 Minutes
GENRE: Narrative/ Fiction
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Manitoba
KEYWORDS: Comedy, Drama, Environment, Health, LGBTQIA2S+, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi

Director's Statement: We filmed the movie in Matlock, a place that has been important to me since childhood. I’ve seen it change a lot over the years. The zebra mussels showed up as I was writing the script, and the growing threat of blue-green algae looms over the future of the lake. I wanted to document the place and some of the challenges it’s currently going through, but as a heightened reality steeped in fantasy.