EXCLUSIVE: Boris Mojsovski’s dark comedy Foreign Tongue, about a Canadian woman who wakes up one morning with a thick Bosnian accent, has completed principal photography and released first images.
Billed as a love letter to the immigrant experience, the film stars Kimberly-Sue Murray (Shadowhunters), Steve Byers (The Madness), Rachel Ancheril (Star Trek: Discovery) and Greg Bryk (A History of Violence).
Murray plays a disillusioned North American woman who life is overturned as the result of a baffling real-life condition known as foreign accent syndrome, which leads to her developing a Bosnian accent overnight.
The condition transforms Kathy into the most unlikely immigrant, a stranger from within. Blending wit with emotional depth, Foreign Tongue turns a rare medical anomaly into a surreal, genre-defying reflection on identity, perception, and cultural belonging.
Foreign Tongue is a deeply personal project for Sarajevo-born, Canada-based director and cinematographer Mojsovski.
“I’ve lived so many of Kathy’s emotional beats: the miscommunications, the invisibility, the quiet isolation,” says Mojsovski. “But instead of dramatizing them with bitterness, I wanted to explore them with surreal humour, empathy, and lyrical absurdity.:
Foreign Tongue is Mojsovski’s third feature after debut movie Three and a Half, which premiered at SXSW and was released theatrically in North America, Europe, and Asia, and 2005 work Neil, with more recent credits including the TV series Titans and The Lost Symbol.
He has also garnered acclaim as a cinematographer, winning the ASC Award for his work on the long-running post-apocalyptic drama 12 Monkeys.
Foreign Tongue is co-written with actress Cynthia Ashperger (Orphan Black, Violation). It is produced by Munire Armstrong (Bikini Moon) and the producing team Felipe Rodriguez (Kidnap Capital, Virgin River) and Mojsovski with executive producers Jordan Baker and Borga Dorter.
