MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, has acquired all rights for the UK, Germany and Austria for Joshua Oppenheimer’s (The Look of Silence, The Act of Killing) new feature The End, which received its World Premiere at Telluride Film Festival this weekend.
From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.
An urgent and unforgettable cautionary tale, the film stars Academy-Award® winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, The Eternal Daughter, Suspiria), Academy-Award® nominee Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Revolutionary Road), BAFTA-nominee George Mackay (1917, The Beast), and Emmy-nominee Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit, The Tragedy of Macbeth).
The screenplay is by Oppenheimer and Rasmus Heisterberg (A Royal Affair), with songs by Joshua Schmidt (music) and Oppenheimer (lyrics). Marius de Vries is the Executive Music Producer.
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. Son, a naïve twenty-something who has never seen the outside world, is fascinated by the newcomer, and suddenly the delicate bonds of blind optimism that have held this wealthy clan together begin to fray. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble, with long-repressed feelings of remorse and resentment threatening to destroy the family’s delicate balance. But their reckoning with difficult truths also points to a different way forward, one based on acceptance, love, and a capacity for change.
The film was produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real, Joshua Oppenheimer and Tilda Swinton, with Viola Fügen, THE END MFP, Conor Barry, Wild Atlantic Pictures, Flaminio Zadra, Dorje Film, Tracy O’Riordan, Moonspun Films, Ann Lundberg, and Anagram co-producing.
It was also produced in association with Shoni Productions, Iambic Dream Films, Making Movies Oy, Bray’s Run Productions, and Finite Films & TV and supported by Eurimages, Danish Film Institute, Film Consultant Mikkel Munch, Fals The West Danish Film Fund, Steen Risom and Kirsten Bonnén Rask, FilmFyn- Klaus Hansen Film i Skåne, The Swedish Film Institute, Film Commissioner Hanna Lejonqvist, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, DR, YLE, Elina Pohjola, Film und Medienstiftung NRW, DFFF, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Regione Siciliana, Sicilia Film Commission, PSC, MIC, Global Screen Fund, DOHA Film Institute, Field of Vision, and Bertha Doc Society and Creative Europe.
