Following its world premiere in Cannes, Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology of Water would be the closing movie at this 12 months’s Oldenburg worldwide movie pageant.
Tailored from Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir, the movie follows the journey of a younger aggressive swimmer grappling with trauma and habit, finally discovering salvation by writing. Imogen Poots stars. The Forge acquired the movie for North America following its Cannes debut and is planning a theatrical launch in December.
“We’re excited to provide her daring and auspicious directorial debut a particular platform,” mentioned Oldenburg pageant director Torsten Neumann, “as I consider Kristen has confirmed to be a brand new and visionary voice in cinema.”
The Hollywood Reporter‘s lead reviewer David Rooney was impressed, praising Stewart’s first time behind the digicam: “It appears clear that Stewart has made precisely the film she wished to make, establishing a visceral connection along with her topic and by no means letting go.”
Oldenburg additionally confirmed a number of different movies for this 12 months’s lineup, which options a variety of recent work from worldwide filmmakers. Among the many highlights are Annapurna Sriram’s Fucktoys, which has been a breakout on the U.S. pageant circuit and now makes its German premiere; Yun Xie’s Slamdance Viewers Award winner Underneath the Burning Solar, which is able to bow internationally in Oldenburg; and Germán Tejada’s adaptation of Oswaldo Reynoso’s basic 1961 coming-of-age novel Los Inocentes, premiering in Germany.
The U.S. drama $Positions from Brandon Daley, which had its world premiere at SXSW, will get a European bow at Oldenburg, as will J. Xavier Velasco’s Mexican thriller Crocodiles, a couple of younger photojournalist who takes over an investigation when his mentor was killed by the cartels.
Different movies in this system embody the world premieres of Ghost Bastard, the brand new dramedy from German director Erkan Acar (Ronny & Klaid), Johannes Naber’s crime drama Letzte Ernte, and Conditions, the directorial debut of U.S. director Greg Vrotsos.
From Latin America, Gala del Sol presents Rains over Babel, a U.S.-Colombian manufacturing receiving its German premiere. The pageant moreover encompasses a new German presentation of Michael Wadleigh’s 1981 cult movie Wolfen, distributed by Plaion.
On the documentary facet is are Stewart Buck’s Uncovering Wolfen, the story behind Woodstock director Michael Wadleigh’s 1981 ecological thriller, Wolfen; and Christian Genzel’s Discovering Planet Porno: The Wild Journey of American Cinema’s First Outlaw, a have a look at the life and profession of grownup filmmaker Howard Ziehm, whose Mona the Virgin Nymph (1970) was the primary specific characteristic to obtain theatrical distribution within the U.S.
The 2025 Oldenburg movie pageant runs September 10-14.