Screening times:
Thursday, July 9th, 8:45 PM - followed by Q&A!
Avalon Fast | Canada | 2025 | 111m
Emily is the cause of two devastating tragedies in her life. She carries the weight of these accidents like a curse placed upon her. At her dad’s suggestion, she becomes a counsellor at a camp for troubled youth. Upon her arrival, she is taken in by the other counsellors. Emily stands at the forefront of a new kind of life, but a voice calls out from the woods that she can’t seem to ignore.
Avalon Fast’s CAMP is hard to describe. Weaving Fast’s signature Girl Horror aesthetics into a hypnotic summer parable about grief and forgiveness, the film flows from a recognizable sleepaway-camp setting into dreamy new territories. It’s a film that depicts magic and queerness as a natural emotional extension of the world, and friendship as our salvation.
It’s an Avalon Fast Summer here in Kjipuktuk: Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank’s new feature film Drinking and Driving had its Canadian premiere at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival last month, and now it’s finally time for CAMP. Fleapit Cinema is very excited to be presenting the film alongside a newly recorded conversation with Fast about CAMP, Drinking and Driving, magic, acting, grief, and the future.
— Praise for CAMP—
“To call Avalon Fast’s newest film “dreamy” would be an understatement. This movie feels like a smear of time and space in a way that so few movies do. And for a film this seeped in vibes, it’s a total and complete structural palindrome or something. Like an absolute and cohesive container of witchy sexy sisterhood druggie holy hell. It captures grief, growing, and the grief of growing so beautifully and sincerely. A movie that feels like summer ending and autumn beginning, losing so many people and gaining so many more, and soaking in the light of God by absolutely succumbing to the fire of the Devil.” - Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
“If you like slow burn horror that earns its dread through mood instead of jump scares, this is for you. If you love witchy coming-of-age stories, found family, and movies about girlhood that do not flatten girls into types, this is absolutely for you. And, if you have ever wanted The Craft but lonelier, more lo-fi, and emotionally unstable in the best way, get a ticket.” - Luna Gray, iHorror
“I think this is objectively one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.” - Henri Gillespi, CAMP
Tickets $12.65 ($12 at the door if available)
If you’re unable to pay the standard rate, send fleapit.cine@gmail.com an email and we’ll reserve a spot for PWYC on the day. Movies 4 everyone! - FPC
