Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, will close the Screen Festival component of SXSW London in June.
The movie will arrive in London fresh from its world premiere as the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard strand, and ahead of its August release by Mubi in the U.S. and UK and Ireland.
The Plan B and Mubi co-production stars Einbinder as a filmmaker remaking a cult slasher film, who becomes obsessed with the idea of casting the original picture’s “final girl”, played by Anderson. It is Schoenbrun’s third feature after horror films We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow.
“Jane Schoenbrun has been building one of the most fascinating bodies of work in cinema today,” said Screen Festival Head Anna Bogutskaya.
“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma builds on every touchpoint of Schoenbrun’s work, exploring horror, fandom, memory, and identity, and pushes it further. Every scene between Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson was so charged I was afraid the screen might catch fire.”
In further final additions, the Screen Program will also host the world premiere Brazilian director Bruno Safadi Globo-produced series Playoffs, with its star Cauã Reymond hitting the red carpet at London’s Barbican Centre.
The program has also added Greek director Thanasis Neofotistos’s genre-fluid feature debut folktale The Boy With Light-Blue Eyes; Sam McConnell’s Test, a portrait of an amateur bodybuilder in rural Ohio confronting a dysfunctional family, substance abuse, and his own emerging sexuality, and Chris Atkins’ documentary James – Getting Away With It, charting the rise of the ‘Sit Down’ hitmakers out of the Manchester music scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Adding to the programme is a Special Screening in collaboration with Silents Synced of The Cure Meets The Man Who Laughs, a re-scored edition of the 1928 silent classic with music from The Cure.
There will also be UK premieres for Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, in which she also stars alongside Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and Penélope Cruz, and Sofia Coppola’s documentary Marc by Sofia about her longtime friend and collaborator Marc Jacobs.
SXSW London will run from June 1 to 6.
The full list of additions
World Premieres
- The Playoffs (Dir: Bruno Safadi)
- The Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes (Dir: Thanasis Neofotistos)
- Test (Dir: Sam McConnell)
- James–Getting Away With It (Dir: Chris Atkins)
UK Premieres
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Dir: Jane Schoenbrun)
- Bayaan (Dir: Bikas Ranjan Mishra)
- American Zoo (Dir: Tim Travers Hawkins) (Documentary)
- Funky Freaky Freaks (Dir: Han Chang-lok)
- Irkalla – Gilgamesh’s Dream (Dir: Mohamed Al Daradji)
- Made in EU (Dir: Stephan Komandarev)
- Pretty/Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter (Dir: Amanda Benchley, Jennifer Ash Rudick)
- The Night (Gaua) (Dir: Paul Urkijo Alijo)
- Leviticus (Dir: Adrian Chiarella)
- Winter of the Crow (Dir: Kasia Adamik)
- The Invite (Dir: Olivia Wilde)
- Marc by Sofia (Dir: Sofia Coppola) (Documentary)
- Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me (Dir: Mohammed Sawwaf) (Documentary)
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