SANCTUARY Q&A | TIFF 2022

The team behind SANCTUARY in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The heir to a hotel empire (Christopher Abbott) and the dominatrix who has primed him for success (Margaret Qualley) battle it out in a hotel room as he tries to end their relationship. The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit . As Hal Porterfield (Christopher Abbott) prepares to take over his late father’s hotel empire, he arranges one last session with Rebecca (Margaret Qualley), a ravishing and skilled dominatrix who has proved capable of carrying out his fantasies to a T. Over the course of their relationship, she has transformed him from a mewling repressive to someone that actually has the confidence to ask for what he wants — and now, he wants to show her the door. Rebecca knows she deserves more than a retirement gift, though, and soon the two are locked in a battle of wits and wills, confined to