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Manhunt

New Directors Competition

Manhunt

Manhunt

direction Wayne Wapeemukwa

Canada 2026 Fiction Cor 103 min.

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Inspired by the real 2019 Northern British Columbia manhunt when two teenage boys from Vancouver Island murdered three strangers and fled north through ghost towns and endless forest. Their flight, live-tracked across social media and news feeds, unfolded like a fever dream of the digital age: an open- world simulation of fear and fascination. The film reframes those events not as true crime, but as a parable of modern masculinity — a generation raised by computers, haunted by loneliness, and searching for meaning in the ruins of the frontier. Presented at the Locarno Film Festival.

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technical sheet

direction

Wayne Wapeemukwa

screenplay

Anna-Lena Theobald, Wayne Wapeemukwa

cinematography

Jonathan Glendon

editing

Coline Debray

sound design

Matt Drake, Sharon Tseng

music

Daniel J. K. Ross

casting

Katrín Braga

production design

Daren Luc Sasges

cast

Harris Lowe, Landon Tunold, Bianca Foscht, Dilara Foscht

production

Wayne Wapeemukwa, Nathan Drillot, Matt Drake

produced by

Manhunt Productions

world sales

Aspect Ratio Films

galeria

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