Sydney Film Festival 2024, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024
Layla and her husband Jack live on an isolated cattle property hundreds of miles from the nearest neighbour. With their son away at boarding school, Jack spends his days tending to the livestock and experimenting with new biotechnology, Layla pines for her son and the life she once had. But one night, everything changes, when a storm knocks out power to the property and they soon discover that something unknown has been released onto the farm.
Independent filmmakers in their own right, Will Howarth and Tom McKeith have a longstanding partnership which began in highschool. Their feature debut Beast, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. In Vitro is their second film together.
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