At the Place of Ghosts

AT THE PLACE OF GHOSTS works best when it leans into atmosphere and emotion. The cinematography is often beautiful, yet haunting. The score adds a lingering melancholy that will stay with you even after the end credits have rolled. The concept of ghosts from generations…

Leesah Sea

Pretty admirable, especially because it's a refreshing means of utilizing the "trauma" angle after seeing it be done to death in genre cinema through the years. In fact, I think the Indigenous angle we're witnessing in At the Place of Ghosts helps give this movie a flair of…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

Forrest Goodluck continues to wrangle strong performances grounded in a prickly vulnerability. He is long deserving of a star-making turn, but happy to bear witness to his continued carve-out in indie cinema. At the Place of Ghosts is unevenly structured, haphazardly…

Troy Thrace 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

While respecting indigenous spirituality and tradition... instead of the constant interactive flashbacks, visions of chatty ghost elders, Heritage Minute historical re-enactments and hallucinated arthouse installations... should you not have just made a time travel drama?…

Lynn Betts

“Time is unfixed. It is alive” Not the story I was expecting, based on the description on the festival website. This was beautiful. Full of striking images and hallucinatory moments of time reaching out and back through the forest. Narratively minimalist without a wasted…

6benharrison

Sk+te’kmujue’katil is a new film from L’nu filmmaker Bretten Hannam. The story follows two siblings who drifted apart and are forced to come back together in order to confront the secrets of their past. To do that, they must take a long journey through a forest called…

River Caplin

At the Place of Ghosts feels like it has the thematic concepts akin to Hereditary and Nope, while keeping the jump scares and unsettling atmosphere of a modern Bloomhouse production. The place of ghosts is a clever representation of two aboriginal brothers grieving over the…

Quintin

bretten is two for two in making me sob in the cinema

b. weird

when the film has indigenous representations of time (rubbing hands together meme).  i seriously loved this!!! i laughed, i cried, i gasped in fear. more indigenous genre film please and now!!

Natalie