THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER Q&A | TIFF 2022

“The team behind THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. This haunting mystery from director Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir) stars Tilda Swinton in a mesmerizing performance as a woman forced to confront past memories while visiting an eerily empty old manor. The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit . The Eternal Daughter, the latest feature by Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir I & II), confirms the filmmaker as one of cinema’s great excavators of memory. A surprising and suspenseful take on the Victorian Gothic, Hogg’s film weaves her signature spaces haunted by the past, complex family dynamics, and traces of autobiography into a spellbound, expressionist vision. The film begins in a thick, foreboding fog. The middle-aged Julie and her elderly mother — both played by the extraordinary Tilda Swinton — are led through a formal tree-lined driveway to the