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SEVEN VEILS

• Director: Atom Egoyan
• CANADA / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 109’ / English, German; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Atom Egoyan
• Director of Photography: Paul Sarossy
• Editing: David Wharnsby
• Music: Mychael Danna
• Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine
• Producer: Niv Fichman, Atom Egoyan, Simone Urdl, Fraser Ash, Kevin Krikst
• Production Co.: Rhombus Media, Ego Film Arts
• World Sales: XYZ Films
• Turkish Rights: Siyah Beyaz

Written and directed by Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan, Seven Veils follows earnest theatre director Jeanine (played by the amazing Amanda Seyfried) who has been given the task of remounting the opera Salome. In the shadow of her former mentor’s most famous work, she is haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past. Atom Egoyan directed the opera, Salome, in 1996, and more recently, he was interested in exploring what the production of Salome would mean in our current culture: ‘It’s not really an opera movie, it’s just using the world of the opera as a workplace like any workplace.’ All the characters are fictional in the film (except the actual opera singers who play themselves) and are inspired by the central questions of desire, ambition and power that define the work. Incorporating footage of Egoyan’s actual remounting of the opera, Seven Veils premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.