Levers (film)

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Levers
Directed by Rhayne Vermette
Written byRhayne Vermette
Produced byRhayne Vermette
Oliver King
Charlene Moore
StarringVal Vint
Andrina Turenne
Will George
CinematographyRhayne Vermette
Ryan Steel
Heidi Phillips
Kristiane Church
Edited byRhayne Vermette
Music byBret Parenteau
Production
company
Exovedate Productions
Release date
  • September 5, 2025 (2025-09-05)(TIFF)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Levers is a Canadian experimental drama film, directed by Rhayne Vermette and released in 2025. [1] The film centres on a small town in Manitoba whose residents are tested when the town is plunged into darkness by an unexpected solar eclipse just as a community sculpture is about to be unveiled in the town centre, [2] with the story told episodically in 22 chapters inspired by the major arcana in a deck of tarot cards. [2]

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The cast includes Val Vint, Andrina Turenne and Will George.

The film premiered in the Wavelengths program at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. [3]

Critical response

Shelagh Rowan-Legg of Screen Anarchy wrote that "Levers is something of an enigma, but that is what suits its slippery, hazy narrative that asks us to question how to look and move through the world when we must rethink how we encounter it. Mostly, it looks to a communuity to understand how that realignment must take place, with the knowledge that the unknown is upon us, and a different (or perhaps renewed) kind of labour is necessary to carry through it." [4]

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