TIFF 2024 – Canadian Premiere – Joshua Oppenheimer’s post-apocalyptic musical THE END starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, and Michael Shannon | Wednesday, September 11

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Sep 9, 2024
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A Film by Joshua Oppenheimer

Starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Michael Shannon,

Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, Lennie James

Canadian Premiere - Special Presentations

2024 TIFF Screening Schedule

Friday, September 6 - 12:05pm - Scotiabank 12 - P&I Screening

Wednesday, September 11 - 9:30pm - Princess of Wales Theatre - Premiere*

Thursday, September 12 - 9:00pm - Scotiabank 1 - Public Screening #2*

*Q&A to follow with writer/director Joshua Oppenheimer

and stars George MacKay and Moses Ingram

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.

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.

An urgent and unforgettable cautionary tale, The End stars Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Revolutionary Road), George MacKay (1917) and Moses Ingram (Lady in the Lake, The Queen’s Gambit). The screenplay is by Oppenheimer and Rasmus Heisterberg (A Royal Affair), with songs by Joshua Schmidt (music) and Oppenheimer (lyrics).