Title: The Shrouds
Section: Competition
Director: David Cronenberg
Logline: Karsh (Vincent Cassel), a businessman and grieving widower, creates a device to connect with the dead, using a high-tech burial shroud. This tool — installed at his own state-of-the-art cemetery — allows him and his clients to watch their departed loved ones decompose in real time. But when his cemetery is vandalized, he begins to realize that he is the target of a far-reaching conspiracy.
Sales Agent: WME (US), SBS (International)
Panelist: Writer-director David Cronenberg and actor Vincent Cassel.
Key quotes: “It’s hard to know when I first had the idea. Actually, I think it was about five years ago, and I just was thinking about my own situation. My wife had died in 2017, and we had been together for 43 years, and I was just thinking about all of those things. About burial, is there an afterlife, or is there not? All of those things.” – David Cronenberg
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