Festivals - Sundance Film Festival 2021 : Coming home in the dark directed by James Ashcroft will have its world premiere

By Mulder, 20 december 2020

Winding down a desolate road through an endless valley, Alan and Jill stop their car to take their teenage boys on a hike through the New Zealand wilderness. As they rest for a picnic at a clearing overlooking the water, two ominous-looking drifters appear out of nowhere, silently surrounding the peaceful clan and radiating a threat of imminent danger. With a swift act of violence, these men take the family by force, a seemingly random decision that sets them all on a maddening collision course with the ghosts of their pasts—from which there is no escape.

With its menacing performances and calibrated stakes, director James Ashcroft’s ruthless crime thriller careens into an unhinged road trip that leaves the viewer breathless through every piercing curve. Ashcroft pulls absolutely no punches in his feature debut, an astonishingly lean and relentlessly paced descent into the heart of brutality, building tension from a single speck to an avalanche with uncommon precision.

Synopsis :
A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.

Coming home in the dark (New Zealand)
Directed by James Ashcroft
Produced by Mike Minogue, Catherine Fitzgerald, Desray Armstrong
Executive Producer : James Ashcroft
Written by Eli Kent, James Ashcroft
Starring Daniel Gillies, Erik Thomson, Miriama McDowell, Matthias Luafutu
Music by John Gibson
Sound Designer : John McKay
Production Designers : Kate Logan, Phillip Gibson
Cinematography : Matt Henley
Edited by Annie Collins
Distributed by MPI Media Group (https://mpimedia.com)
Release date : January 31, 2021 (Sundance)
Running time : 93 minutes

Premiere : jan. 31 - 6:00am // Second screening : feb. 1 - 4:00pm (local time)

(Source : press release)