TIFF 2025 | HONEY BUNCH - Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli's Twisted Sophomore Feature has North American Premiere | Centrepiece

When Diana (Glowicki) wakes from a coma with fragmented memories, she and her husband (Petrie) seek experimental treatments at a remote facility. As the procedures intensify, their marriage is put to the test and Diana begins to question her husband’s true motives.

HONEY BUNCH

A FILM BY

MADELEINE SIMS-FEWER & DUSTY MANCINELLI

(VIOLATION - TIFF, SUNDANCE, SXSW 2020)

STARRING  

GRACE GLOWICKi (DEAD LOVER), BEN PETRIE (BLACKBERRY)

JASON ISAACS (HARRY POTTER SAGA), KATIE DICKIE (THE WITCH)

INDIA BROWN (INVASION) AND JULIAN RICHLINGS (BEAU IS AFRAID)

TORONTO INTL FILM FESTIVAL | CENTREPIECE | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

TIFF 2025 FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

P&I: Thursday 9/4 at 10:00pm - Scotiabank 14

TIFF Premiere Wed. 9/10 at 6:30pm - TIFF Lightbox Cinema 2

Public Screening #2: Wed. 9/13 at 2:30pm - Scotiabank 4

Talent Attending

Writers/Directors: Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli

Cast: Grace Glowicki & Ben Petrie

Canada | 2025 | 113m | English, French | Acquisition Title

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli met at the 2015 Talent Lab of the Toronto International Film Festival and have been collaborating ever since. Their debut feature film, Violation, screened at Sundance, Toronto and South by Southwest as well as in MoMA’s “Horror: Messaging the Monstrous” series. The film won the Emerging Canadian Artist Award at the Calgary International Film Festival as well as the Emerging Canadian Director Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival and was nominated for five Canadian Screen Awards.

Filmography:

2017 Slap Happy; short film

2018 Woman in Stall; short film

2019 Chubby; short film

2020 Violation

2025 Honey Bunch