Filmmaker Guy Nattiv”s The Liberation, starring Carrie Coon as a woman who leaves her family to join an all-female cult, had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.
Inspired by the true story of Guy Nattiv’s own grandmother, a Holocaust survivor who drifted away from her family to join a cult, The Liberation filmed in British Columbia last summer.
The Harmonia commune was shot in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island..
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For Rita (Carrie Coon), a workaday life as an assistant bank manager, wife, and mother of two approaching empty-nest status has just collided with the re-emergence of a very painful chapter of her family history. She finds various ways, all frustratingly temporary, to cope with her anxieties — that is, until a mysterious new client, Ricki (Lily James), walks into Rita’s bank.
In addition to making a large deposit, Ricki tenders a more interesting offer: to join a group of women that night in a sunset ritual and perhaps find the gateway to newfound purpose. Much to her family’s dismay, Rita immerses herself into an organization with many skeletons in its proverbial closet and eventually leaves to help Ricki establish a rural all-woman commune.
Bella Ramsey from The Last of Us and Odessa Young play Rita’s daughters, who search for their mother and find themselves entangled in the rituals and delusions of the cult.
Lily James, Carrie Coon, Guy Nattiv, Jaime Ray Newman and Tracy Letts at Telluride.
Bella Ramsey couldn’t be at the premiere because they were shooting,– likely season 3 of The Last of Us in Vancouver.
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Filming in BC
Bella Ramsey on Harmonia set in Port Alberni.
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Director Guy Nativ and wife Jaime Ray Newman posted an Insta Story from set at the BCIT Aerospace campus in Richmond on the final day of production.
The Liberation – Feature.
Working titles: Harmonia, Love and Light
BC filming dates: July 12 2025 – August 19 2025.
Port Alberni filming dates: July 24 2025 – August 15 2025.
Writers: Guy Nattiv, Noa Berman-Herzberg
Director: Guy Nattiv.
Cast: Carrie Coon, Lily James, Bella Ramsey, Odessa Young, Tracy Letts, Jaime Ray Newman, Siobhan Williams, Morgan Taylor Campbell, Sharon Taylor, John Cassini,
Producers: Embankment Films, Bleeker Street.ca
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Casting Calls:
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