Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At The Place of Ghosts): Indigenous Vision Quest + Scary Forest = Hauntingly Good – Original Cin
May 7, 2026
Reviewing films at the Toronto International Film Festival, with the frantic schedule that can go with it, often does a disservice to films that require you to sit back and let things sink in.
Don’t get me wrong. At TIFF, I liked Bretten Hannam’s Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At The Place of Ghosts), a sort-of horror-film about two estranged Mi’kmaw brothers (Blake Alec Miranda and Forrest Goodluck) who are forced to put differences aside and trek through the woods to put a stop to a vengeful ghost that is pursuing them.
But its canoe-paddle pace and seeming randomness of events was sometimes hard to wrap my head around. I liked it, as I say, but I didn’t realize how much until my second viewing.
