The End to receive World Premiere at 51st Telluride Film Festival
Posted: 29th August 2024
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to congratulate the creative team behind post-apocalyptic golden-age musical The End, which has been selected to receive its World Premiere at the 51st Telluride Film Festival this weekend. Joshua Oppenheimer's highly anticipated feature film will screen at the prestigious North American festival, known for its secretive programming and its launching of critically acclaimed projects from well-known filmmakers, including recent Irish films such as Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy's thriller Baltimore and Tadhg O'Sullivan's documentary To The Moon.
Starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Michael Shannon, Moses Ingram and Bronagh Gallagher, the film revolves around a wealthy family surviving in a palatial bunker, two decades after the world has ended. After the sudden arrival of a stranger threatens the family’s luxurious compound deep underground, their son, who has never seen the outside world, begins to question their seemingly perfect existence.
The End is produced by Final Cut for Real with Irish production company Wild Atlantic Pictures, The Match Factory, Dorje Film, Moonspun Films and Anagram co-producing. The film is supported by Screen Ireland, along with the Danish Film Institute, Vestdanske Filmpulje and FilmFyn, in Denmark, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and MDM Fund in Germany, the Italian Ministry of Culture (MIC) and Sicily Film Commission in Italy, the UK Global Screen Fund and SFI and Film i Skåne in Sweden. The pan-Nordic Fund Nordisk Film & Tv Fond and the European fund Eurimage are also on board. The international co-production is co-financed by NEON.
The End will screen in Telluride as part of the festival's main programme, the SHOW. The 51st Telluride Film Festival takes place from Friday, 30th August to Monday, 2nd September.