Sew Torn

15 yrs 100 minutes • 2024 • 6.0

A seamstress becomes entangled in her own threads after stumbling into a failed drug deal. She has three options: commit the perfect crime, call the police, or simply drive away. Each choice leads to an escalating game of cat-and-mouse with varying violent outcomes, where her decisions are woven together in a narrative web of blood-stained embroidery threads.

Freddy MacDonald's debut film takes its cue from a classic neo-noir, but sews in so many quirks and eccentrically embroiders its side threads that it takes on an identity all its own. Suspense is mixed with absurd humor in a very odd story about a woman who overcomes her enemies by weaving colorful threads around shoelaces, belt buckles, and chair legs.