« You have to aim for the top. Otherwise, what's the point? »
- Raph

BALESTRA

Synopsis

 

Disgraced competitive fencer Joanna Bathory is striving for an Olympic comeback – her last chance for a shot at gold. Pressured by her husband and coach Raph, Joanna receives a prototype device allowing her to extend her training into her sleeping hours. By day she’s on the piste, and by night she’s lucid dreaming. But reality begins to blur when she encounters a stranger named Elliot and gets caught in her own web of subconscious desires and unfulfilling reality.

Canada, 2022

Thriller, 144 min

BALESTRA

Cast

Cush Jumbo
Manny Jacinto
James Badge Dale
Christin Park
Stephen Lobo
Heather Doerksen
Sharon Crandall
Claude Knowlton
Natalie Farrow
Hannah Duke
Holly Clarke
Michele Goyns
Lori Triolo
Johnson Phan
Luke Bilyk
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Production

Director: Nicole Dorsey
Screenwriter: Imran Zaidi
Producers: Pierre Even, Paul-E. Audet, Chris Ferguson

Crew

Director of photography: Marie Davignon
Production designer: Caitlin Byrnes
Costume designers: Sekyiwa Wi-Afedzi & Brooke Wilcox
Key makeup: Joan-Patricia Parris & Amy Diedrich
Sound: Ben McDonald
Editor: Veronique Barbe
Casting: Chelsea Bloch, Marisol Roncali (US) Kara Eide, Kris Woznesensky (CAN)
Stills photographer: David Astorga Bocos
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