Darkest Miriam

Darkest Miriam
Directed byNaomi Jaye
Written byNaomi Jaye
Based onThe Incident Report by Martha Baillie
Produced byJulie Baldassi
Brian Robertson
StarringBritt Lower
Tom Mercier
Sook-Yin Lee
Jean Yoon
CinematographyMichael LeBlanc
Edited byLev Lewis
Music byEliza Niemi
Louie Short
Production
companies
Younger Daughter Films
Low End
Through The Lens Entertainment
Distributed byGame Theory Films
Release date
  • June 9, 2024 (2024-06-09) (Tribeca)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Darkest Miriam is a 2024 Canadian drama film, directed by Naomi Jaye.[1] Adapted from Martha Baillie's novel The Incident Report,[2] the film stars Britt Lower as Miriam, a librarian in Toronto who leads a closed-off, grief-stricken life after her father's death; amid a series of strange incidents at the library, she meets and begins a romance with Janko (Tom Mercier), a Slovenian immigrant who opens her up to new possibilities.[3]

The cast also includes Sook-Yin Lee, Jean Yoon, Jaimara Beals, Clyde Whitham, Susannah Hoffmann, Scott McCulloch, Igor Shamuilov, Joshua Odjick, Sarah Li Wen Du, Anita Yung, Peter Millard, Danté Prince, Scott Ryan Yamamura, Jamaal Grant, Aviva Armour-Ostroff, and Laura Afelskie.