Starring Tilda Swinton, George Mackay, Moses Ingram and Michael Shannon, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is coming to UK cinemas.
MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, has released the official trailer and artwork for Joshua Oppenheimer’s one-of-a-kind apocalyptic tale The End, which will be released in cinemas across the UK on 28 March 2025.
Wildcard will distribute The End in Ireland, and it will also be released in cinemas on 28 March.
Taking shape as a soaring musical, this 2024 Toronto and London Film Festivals selection asks a resonant question for us all: what happens when you recognise that your life, and your family, aren’t what you thought they were?
WORLD PREMIERE
The film received its world premiere at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival, and is co-written and directed by Academy-Award® nominated Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) and stars Academy-Award® winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, Suspiria), BAFTA-nominated George MacKay (1917, Captain Fantastic), EMMY-nominated Moses Ingram (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”, The Queen’s Gambit”), Academy-Award® nominated Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water, A Different Man), BAFTA winner Lennie James (“Save Me”, “Fear The Walking Dead”), Tim McInnerny (Gladiator II, “One Day”) and Bronagh Gallagher (Sherlock Holmes, “Brassic”).
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.
SYNOPSIS
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 rights were acquired from The Match Factory, who are handling international sales.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Signe Byrge Sørensen produced the film 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.
THE NEW ARTWORK

The End is in cinemas in the UK & Ireland on March 28th.

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