At TIFF, Canadian filmmakers Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie are the only lovers left alive

Toronto filmmakers Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie will see one film, Dead Lover, screen during TIFF’s Midnight Madness program, and another, Honey Bunch, featured in the Centrepiece program.

There are lovers in a dangerous time, and then there are the trials and tribulations that Toronto’s Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie put themselves through on-screen.

In 2019’s genre-defying Tito , the couple star in a hilariously absurd look at the furtive relationship between two socially isolated neighbours. In last year’s nervy comedy The Heirloom , the two seemingly twist facets of their real-life relationship into a black comedy about doomed partners who rescue a dog during the pandemic.

But with their two new high-profile projects Dead Lover and Honey Bunch , both of which will play the