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Between Waves (2020)

Between Waves poster
Directed by
Virginia Abramovich
Genre
drama, romance, science fiction
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
18A
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A photographer grieving the death of her quantum physicist partner starts seeing visions where he claims to have travelled to a parallel dimension. She follows their planned trip to a remote island in hopes of reuniting with him.

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What happens

Between Waves is a Canadian psychological thriller film, directed by Virginia Abramovich and released in 2020. The film stars Fiona Graham as Jamie, a photographer from Toronto whose partner Isaac (Luke Robinson), a quantum physicist who was researching the concept of travel between parallel dimensions, turns up dead, and Jamie then begins to see visions of him claiming that he succeeded in his research and imploring her to go through with their planned trip to São Miguel Island so that she can join him. The film's cast also includes Sebastian Deery, Stacey Bernstein, Edwige Jean-Pierre, Miguel Damião, Eliya Sekulova, Jessica Barrera, Grayson Stephen, Juliet Lewsaw, Lora Burke and Holden Levack. The film premiered in October 2020 at the Portland Film Festival, and had its Canadian premiere in December at the Whistler Film Festival, before going into commercial release in September 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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