“Take this time to spend it well with her.” 01 Distribution in Italy and Rai Cinema have revealed the first official promo trailer for Another End, an intriguing sci-fi film from Italian filmmaker Piero Messina. This is set to premiere at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival this weekend, hence the trailer dropping. It’s playing in the Main Competition as a contender for the Golden Bear. Yet another film about grief and someone trying to bring back a lost loved one through futuristic tech. Since Sal has lost Zoe, the love of his life, he has been living only in his memories: memories like fragments of a shattered mirror that cannot be put back together. Sal’s sister suggests he turn to Another End, a new technology that promises to ease the pain of separation by briefly bringing back to life the consciousness of those who have died. Sal finds Zoe again in this way, but in the body of another woman. What was broken seems to come together again. But this joy is fragile, fleeting, treacherous. Can love truly survive as a secret guarded by the body? Starring Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, Olivia Williams, and Pal Aron. We’ve seen this exact concept before in other similar films (like Swan Song), but will this turn out better? Will it do offer up anything different? // Continue Reading ›

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