Deadline just published a spotlight on the Foscht Sisters—twins Bianca and Dilara—who co-star in Manhunt, directed by award-winning Canadian filmmaker […]
Deadline just published a spotlight on the Foscht Sisters—twins Bianca and Dilara—who co-star in Manhunt, directed by award-winning Canadian filmmaker Wayne Wapeemukwa.
Next month, the Foschts head to the prestigious Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland with the film, premiering in Competition, inspired by a true story from 2019 about two teenage boys from Vancouver Island who “murdered three strangers and fled north through ghost towns and endless forest”.
Meanwhile, the site reports that the Foscht Sisters are plotting their sophomore writing-directing effort, Oma, “a female-driven psychological horror film with a surrealistic perspective.”
“The plan is that we are directing it and also playing two roles in it,” says Dilara. “However, this is an ensemble cast. So, this is not like Day of a Lion where it’s three characters and that’s it. There’s multiple characters in this one. And we’re still looking actually for the leading role in it, Oma, the title character.”
They’re assembling the financing for the project, which will impact where they shoot the film.
“The storyline plays in the Austrian Alps, but the characters are very ambiguous. So they could be from the UK, from France, from the U.S.,” notes Bianca. “We have the option to shoot in Slovakia… as well as options in Italy. And as shooting in Europe often involves a couple different countries, that might be an option. We try to keep it as contained as possible though because it is an independent movie.”
As for Manhunt, the film is a parable of modern masculinity — a generation raised by computers, haunted by loneliness, and searching for meaning in the ruins of the frontier.
More on both as they come on.
