by FilmInk Staff
Nexus Production Group’s European feature film After The Act to be released theatrically in Australia from December 11, following screenings in Vienna and Berlin
After The Act, the new feature film from European-based Australian filmmakers Sarah Jayne Portelli and Ivan Malekin, will premiere at the Eclipse Cinema in Melbourne, Australia, from December 11.
The Australian premiere of the film follows screenings in Vienna at the Admiral Kino on December 3, followed by a showing at Berlin’s underground Sputnik Kino on December 9th.
The filmmakers and lead actors Laura Petracco and Jacob Wolf Lefton will participate in Q&As in Vienna and Berlin, with Portelli and Malekin then travelling to Melbourne for the Australian premiere.
After The Act is a drama set in Berlin. The story is a devastating meditation on love and intimacy, unfolding over 24 hours as three friends face the quiet wreckage of their choices.
Co-produced and co-directed by indie filmmakers Sarah Jayne Portelli and Ivan Malekin of prolific European film production company Nexus Production Group, After The Act has been described “uniquely intimate cinema” by Senses of Cinema film critic Bill Mousoulis and “an example of what indie dramas can deliver that big studio films can’t,” by Film Threat.
The filmmaker’s storytelling approach is deeply rooted in the traditions of art house and slow cinema. Inspiration for their work is taken from Éric Rohmer’s observational intimacy, Hong Sang-soo’s elliptical honesty, and the raw, lived-in immediacy of Berlin mumblecore.
SJ and Ivan share that After The Act, their fifth improvised feature, “represents the culmination of an ongoing experiment: to make films that feel lived, not manufactured; films that carry the spontaneity of life itself. In embracing the unconventional, we find honesty. And in that honesty, we hope audiences discover themselves reflected—messy, complicated, human.”
Full details, including links to ticket sales can be found at the film’s official website: http://www.aftertheactfilm.com/
