
Acting
Sofia Banzhaf
Born 1991-06-13 · Germany
Sofia Banzhaf is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador. As a director, she is most noted for her 2019 short film I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain, which premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films. As an actress, she is known for Closet Monster (2015), Splinters (2018) and Bitten (2014).
Acting credits
6.7Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
Dream Scenario
2023
6.1A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.
Stage Mother
2020
A lonely retail clerk who spends most of her time chatting with AI struggles to identify the source of her unshakeable unease.
Pocket Mirror
2026
7.0A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Closet Monster
2016
2.0Thom Fitzgerald explores interconnections of sexual identity, family, and small-town Nova Scotia life in this intimate drama about a young woman reassessing her relationship with her mother following the death of her father.
Splinters
2018
3.4After a few years absence, Evan unexpectedly returns one night to face his now-famous former bandmates. The surprise reunion is bittersweet, in this intimate depiction of the knotty complexities of relating to old friends after everything has changed.
We Forgot to Break Up
2017
7.0An overworked student finds his life thrown into chaos when he gets involved with a young drug addict.
4 Quarters
2015
4.8Follows the journey of Natalie "Honey Bee" Sorensen, an underage truck stop prostitute trapped in a human trafficking ring until she is transplanted into foster care in remote Northern Ontario and forced to confront her identity.
Honey Bee
2018
7.5The lives of a disillusioned teen and an alienated man converge in 1980s Newfoundland.
Black Conflux
2019
4.8Janey arrives at a silent retreat in the middle of the woods for rehabilitation, only to discover that the men who run it aren't afraid to show her what lurks beyond the trees.
Silent Retreat
2013
NRReturning home to Toronto after years away, Nell runs into Jackie, an old friend. As they spend the day together, a buried past rises to the surface, leaving them reckoning with their shared history.
Winter After Winter
2026
2.5A minor traffic citation spirals into an all-consuming obsession for a neurotic young woman.
Retrograde
2023
NRMy first apartment movie, and a video exorcism.
I've Never Done Anything Without You
2019
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
2015
10.0After the bizarre murder of her twin-sister, Nico London moves into her sister's apartment and tries to retrace her steps through the seedier side of Toronto. With the help of Detective Marcos & rogue reporter Flint she discovers a world of terrifying Satanic cults. The bodycount rises higher and higher until reality itself starts to get ripped apart.
Zygosity
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Behind the camera
NRStruggling young rideshare driver Tyler falls under the influence of a self-styled entrepreneur, JP who offers him a future in his handheld massager business. But what appears to be a dream opportunity unravels as JP pulls Tyler into a violent downward spiral.
Apparatus
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NRStruggling young rideshare driver Tyler falls under the influence of a self-styled entrepreneur, JP who offers him a future in his handheld massager business. But what appears to be a dream opportunity unravels as JP pulls Tyler into a violent downward spiral.
Apparatus
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NRStruggling young rideshare driver Tyler falls under the influence of a self-styled entrepreneur, JP who offers him a future in his handheld massager business. But what appears to be a dream opportunity unravels as JP pulls Tyler into a violent downward spiral.
Apparatus
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The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
2015
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
2015
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
2015
NRA young woman explores her sexual autonomy through a series of discomfiting encounters.
I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain
2019
NRA young woman explores her sexual autonomy through a series of discomfiting encounters.
I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain
2019