Markham Street Films returns with Level 16, a sci-fi thriller directed by Danishka Esterhazy.

Teenagers Vivien (Katie Douglas) and Sophia (Celina Martin) are locked away in a sterile, secret boarding school where they’re taught the finer points of “feminine virtues” by Miss Brixil (Sara Canning), a Stepford-like headmistress. They believe that all of the intense grooming regimens and strict sleep schedules they’ve endured have been in the service of making them ideal adoptive daughters for high-society families. Rebellious tendencies have been suppressed and friendships discouraged. In fact, Vivien holds a special enmity for Sophia, who she feels betrayed her many years ago. But after they reunite in their last year at the school, in Level 16, Sophia shares the knowledge that she has secretly acquired, and they begin to question what fate awaits them when they age out of the institution.

As their world breaks down so do the truths they’ve been told. And now they must escape or die trying.