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Honey Bunch

Berlinale Special 2025
© Cat People, 2024
Diana’s attentive and devoted husband, Homer, has taken her from her hospital bed to a remote experimental trauma retreat. After an accident left her with crippling pain and memory loss, this might be their last hope that she’ll get better. Farah, Diana’s personal physician, promises that with the use of Dr. Tréphine’s cutting-edge therapies and with Homer’s helping hand, she will make a full recovery — she’ll feel like her old self again. Homer is enthusiastic about her progress, but the more treatment she undergoes the less Diana feels like herself. When the ritualistic exercises intensify, Diana experiences haunting visions and begins to notice strange changes in her husband’s behaviour. Whispered conversations behind closed doors, going missing for long periods, and his insistence she is recovering even though she feels worse. As troubling memories from her relationship begin to come vividly back to her, Diana must confront the possibility that her recovery may come at a cost far greater than she imagined—one that threatens to unravel a sinister truth about her marriage.
by Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli (Director), Madeleine Sims-Fewer (Screenplay), Dusty Mancinelli (Screenplay)
with Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Kate Dickie, Jason Isaacs, India Brown Canada 2025 English, French 113' Colour World premiere

With

  • Grace Glowicki (Diana)
  • Ben Petrie (Homer)
  • Kate Dickie (Farah)
  • Jason Isaacs (Joseph)
  • India Brown (Josephina)

Crew

Director Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli
Screenplay Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
Cinematography Adam Crosby
Editing Lev Lewis
Music Andrea Boccadoro
Sound Design Matthew Chan
Production Design Joshua Howard Turpin
Casting Jessie Frost
Producers Becky Yeboah, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
Executive Producers Niv Fichman, Fraser Ash, Kevin Krikst, Ben Petrie, Tenille Shockey, François Dagenais, Will Woods, Aram Tertzakian, Nate Bolotin, Maxime Cottray, Todd Brown, Adrian Love, Michael O’Leary, Rupert Preston, Ed Caffrey

Produced by

Cat People

World Sales

XYZ Films

Photos

Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli

© 2023 Shalan and Paul

The two filmmakers 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

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025