Maxime Giroux’s feature In Cold Light will be making its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.

The film is produced by Montreal-based Peripheria’s president and co-founder Yanick Létourneau alongside Toronto’s Lithium Studios’ founder Mike MacMillan.

In Cold Light (pictured), premiering at the New York festival in the Spotlight Narrative section, stars Maika Monroe (Longlegs), Troy Kotsur (Coda), Helen Hunt (Twister) and Allan Hawco (Saint-Pierre). The film, written by Patrick Whistler (Cardinal), follows a woman, fresh out of prison, whose attempt to reclaim her drug empire collapses when she witnesses a brutal crime and is forced to flee.

The film was in full prep when the SAG-AFTRA strike hit in 2023, Létourneau told Playback Daily, forcing production to pause for a few weeks. Production resumed in June that year in Alberta and wrapped in September in Montreal. The project was financed by Telefilm Canada, SODEC, XYZ Films, Elevation Pictures and Entract Films along with Canadian federal and provincial tax credits.

Elevations Pictures is In Cold Light‘s Canadian distributor outside of Quebec while Entract Films is handling Quebec distribution. XYZ Films is in charge of world sales with the U.S. rights for the film still available, making Tribeca the perfect venue for In Cold Light‘s world premiere, said Létourneau.

Yanuni, another project with Canadian connections, will be making its world premiere as the festival’s closing night film. The documentary from Austrian director Richard Ladkani is an Austria/Brazil/U.S./Canada/Germany coproduction produced by the documentary’s subject Juma Xipaia, Leonardo DiCaprio, Anita and Richard Ladkani, Jennifer Davisson and Phillip Watson.

The film follows the journey of Brazilian Indigenous chief and activist Xipaia as she rises from a village in Xipaya territory to the forefront of climate justice.

Executive producers on the project include Canadian tech entrepreneur and founder of Lightspeed Commerce Dax Dasilva, Joanna Natasegara, Laura Nix, Eric Terena, Martin Choroba and Philipp Schall. The film is a Malaika Pictures production, in association with Appian Way, Nia Tero, Dasilva’s Age of Union and Tellux Film with the support of the Austrian Film Institute.

The Tribeca Film Festival runs from June 4 to 15.

Image courtesy of Elevation Pictures