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

Who's up for a post-apocalyptic musical?

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/the-end-screentalk

This event will be hosted by Leila Powell.

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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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BBFC guidance: infrequent strong language, moderate violence, suicide, sex references