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The End + ScreenTalk with Joshua Oppenheimer and George MacKay (12A)

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Director Joshua Oppenheimer and actor George MacKay join us after the film to discuss this unique and poignant post-apocalyptic musical drama.

Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing) makes his fiction debut with this post-apocalyptic musical about a family in denial at the end of the world, starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay, and Moses Ingram.

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 upends their happy routine.

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.

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Film information

Release year: 2024

Country: Denmark/Germany/Ireland/Italy/UK/Sweden/US

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer

Runtime: 2hr 28min

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