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September Says

Directed by Ariane Labed
2024
Ireland, UK, Germany
100 minutes
Unclassified 18+
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The dynamic between two close sisters takes a sinister edge after one is suspended from school. Actor Ariane Labed (Alps SFF 2012 Winner, The Lobster) constructs a superbly gothic atmosphere in her Cannes-selected directorial debut.

Teenage sisters July (Mia Tharia) and September (Pascale Kann) are extremely close. So entwined that they seem to require no one else. They tolerate their single mother, Sheela (Rakhee Thakrar, Sex Education), but even at school, the duo’s interactions with the other students are mostly acrimonious. Born just 10 months apart, September is extremely protective of July, but she also expects her sister to follow every instruction, however unreasonable. When July begins to exert her independence and acts on the attraction she feels for a boy at school, things take a bad turn. Mother and daughters decamp to an old family home in Ireland, where the bond between July and September takes on new, increasingly heightened dimensions. In her visually inventive, atmospheric and surreal debut, director Ariane Labed explores these familial ties – and a love so intense it transforms reality.

Limited seats are available for patrons requiring access for wheelchairs, low vision and hearing loop. Please contact our ticketing team directly on 1300 733 733 or tickets@sff.org.au to complete your booking.
Labed excels at bringing out the offbeat nuances of intimacy
Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire
Newcomer Kann radiates star power as the outgoing September, benevolently bossy to impressionable July, who worships her older sister
Tim Grierson, Screen International

Tickets

Tue 11 Jun
6:20pm
State Theatre
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Wed 12 Jun
3:05pm
State Theatre
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Program Strand
Official Competition
Year
2024
Classification
Unclassified 18+
Country
Ireland, UK, Germany
Language
In English
Director
Ariane Labed
Producer
Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann, Lara Hickey, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe
Cast
Mia Tharia, Pascale Kann, Rakhee Thakrar
Screenwriter
Ariane Labed
Cinematographer
Balthazar Lab
Editor
Bettina Böhler
Premiere
Australian Premiere
Genre
Women Directors, Focus on Women, Literary & Adaptations, Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Cannes Selected
Company Credits
Australian Distributor: Madman Entertainment
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