Sofia Banzhaf

Sofia Banzhaf

Birth : , Germany

History

Sofia Banzhaf is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador. As a director, she is most noted for her 2019 short film I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain, which premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films. As an actress, she is known for Closet Monster (2015), Splinters (2018) and Bitten (2014).

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Sofia Banzhaf
Sofia Banzhaf

Movies

Retrograde
Gabrielle
A minor traffic citation spirals into an all-consuming obsession for a neurotic young woman.
Stage Mother
Young Maybelline
A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.
I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain
Writer
A young woman explores her sexual autonomy through a series of discomfiting encounters.
I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain
Director
A young woman explores her sexual autonomy through a series of discomfiting encounters.
Black Conflux
Tracey Mulligan
The seemingly separate lives of an anxious, disillusioned teen girl and a troubled, alienated man converge fatefully.
Honey Bee
Cherry
Follows the journey of Natalie "Honey Bee" Sorensen, an underage truck stop prostitute trapped in a human trafficking ring until she is transplanted into foster care in remote Northern Ontario and forced to confront her identity.
Splinters
Belle
Thom Fitzgerald explores interconnections of sexual identity, family, and small-town Nova Scotia life in this intimate drama about a young woman reassessing her relationship with her mother following the death of her father.
We Forgot to Break Up
Allison
After a few years absence, Evan unexpectedly returns one night to face his now-famous former bandmates. The surprise reunion is bittersweet, in this intimate depiction of the knotty complexities of relating to old friends after everything has changed.
Closet Monster
Gemma
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Diamond Day
Producer
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
Writer
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
Gracie
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
Diamond Day
Director
The morning after hosting a drug-fueled house party, Gracie wakes to learn her ex-boyfriend Feller is dealing with pseudo-friend Kree and roommate Tanya had her precious heirloom pendant stolen. Gracie embarks to retrieve the necklace, meeting friends and acquaintances along the way in a languorous, darkly humourous study of the precarious transition between youth and adulthood.
4 Quarters
Jane
An overworked student finds his life thrown into chaos when he gets involved with a young drug addict.
Belle & Sebastian: The Party Line
The official music video for Belle and Sebastian's "The Party Line."
Silent Retreat
Alexis
Janey arrives at a silent retreat in the middle of the woods for rehabilitation, only to discover that the men who run it aren't afraid to show her what lurks beyond the trees.