Rumours

Rumours (2024) — watch online on iFILM this horror-comedy from directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson. The G7 leaders gather in a German forest for their annual summit. After posing for a photo with a recently unearthed bog mummy, they settle into a specially built pavilion to draft a joint statement on a global crisis. Then the staff vanishes.

Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, Charles Dance, Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Takehiro Hira and Denis Ménochet play the assembled heads of state — stranded in the woods, increasingly imperiled, still debating the wording. The film's official tagline, "The Official Motion Picture of the G7," signals exactly what kind of joke is being told.

Shot across Canada, Germany and Hungary, Rumours plays as political satire, folk horror and deadpan absurdist comedy at once — and commits to all three. Stream Rumours (2024) online on iFILM.