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Original name: Darkest Miriam
English name: Darkest Miriam
Year: 2024
Run time: 87 minutes
Language: English
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Canada
Director: Naomi Jaye
Producers: Julie Baldassi, Brian Robertson
Cast: Britt Lower, Tom Mercier, Sook-Yin Lee, Jean Yoo
Screenplay: Naomi Jaye
Cinematographer: Michael LeBlanc
Editor: Lev Lewis
Sound Designer: Bret Killoran
Music Composer: Eliza Niemi, Louie Short
Costume Designer: Emma Doyle
Production Designer: Brendan Callaghan
Production Company: Younger Daughter Films, Low End, Through The Lens Entertainment
World Sales: Game Theory Films
Naomi Jaye is an award-winning director known for her distinct visual style and her ability to explore the humor in human frailty. Her debut feature film, The Pin, is a landmark work as one of the only Yiddish-language films made in North America in over 60 years. Shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, the film received critical acclaim. An alumna of the TIFF Talent Lab and Women in the Director's Chair, and the recipient of the WIFT New Vision Mentorship, Naomi continues to expand her creative repertoire. She is currently adapting Martha Baillie's Giller-nominated novel The Incident Report and developing a bold musical feature, Waxing Poetic, further cementing her reputation as a visionary filmmaker.
Miriam is a librarian working in an out of the way branch of the Toronto Public Library. Working among the marginalized eccentrics and cranks that frequent her branch, she is trudging through her life shrouded in a fog of grief. To add weirdness to sadness, she keeps finding vaguely threatening letters throughout the library that seem to be addressed to her and the world at large, but mostly to her. While puzzling over this mystery, Miriam meets Janko, a younger foreign cab driver. When they start a love affair Miriam starts to feel her fog lift. But the question remains: what is the deal with those letters?
