Small Town Murder Songs

Running time: 75 mins

Sublime music and an eerie atmosphere punctuate this modern Gothic murder mystery, adding texture and richness to an intricate and engrossing tale of crime and redemption.

All seems calm in the small Mennonite town of Port Beach, Ontario, until a young woman is discovered having been raped and murdered. For Walter (Fargo's Peter Stormare), the formerly violent but newly baptized and reformed Chief of Police, the ensuing investigation brings tremendous difficulty ? especially when the prime suspect is his ex-girlfriend Rita?s (Crossing Jordan's Jill Hennessy) new beau. Will shadows of Walter's past jeopardize his new life with his God-fearing girlfriend (Raising Hope's Martha Plimpton)? Will his latent feelings for Rita undermine the investigation? Can he truly be forgiven and accepted as a reformed man?

Ed Gass-Donnelly?s stylistic and innovative Small Town Murder Songs bravely challenges the nature of reform and repentance in a small town.

- Katherine Geiger

Preceded by the short film: Meniscus; Director: Maria-Elena Doyle; 8 min.; New Zealand; A powerfully visual story which will envelope you in intoxicating and evocative images of the human being's physical and spiritual cycle of birth, death and life.

Film sponsored by Jim Helvie.