Synopsis
When September is suspended from their school, her sister July begins to assert her own independence. Tension in the family builds on holiday Ireland as a series of surreal encounters test the them all to their limit.
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September Says
Cast
Mia Tharia Niamh Moriarty Cal O'Driscoll Pascale Kann Rakhee Thakrar Barry John Kinsella Shane Connellan Amelia Valentina Pankhania Rachel Benaissa Emmanuel Okoye Charlie Reid Sienna Rose Velikova Suzy Bemba Daisy Johnson Rose Garnett Danielle Ryan Frank Melia Levi O'Sullivan Donna Anita Nikolaisen Maeron Libomi Molly Nilsson Rebecca Whelan Sophia Lennona Saoirse Flynn Valerie O'Connor Colm Lambe
Director
Producers
Ed Guiney Romanna Lobach Lara Hickey Viola Fügen Cécile Tollu-Polonowski Michael Weber Rachel Dargavel Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann Andrew Lowe
Writer
Original Writer
Casting
Editor
Cinematography
Assistant Directors
Executive Producers
Lighting
Production Design
Art Direction
Set Decoration
Visual Effects
Stunts
Sound
Costume Design
Makeup
Hairstyling
Studios
Countries
Language
Alternative Titles
Sisters, September & July
Genre
Releases by Date
Premiere
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France
Cannes Film Festival
11 Jun 2024
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Australia
Sydney Film Festival
24 Jul 2024
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Poland
New Horizons International Film Festival
10 Aug 2024
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Australia
Melbourne International Film Festival
18 Aug 2024
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Norway
Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund
22 Sep 2024
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Indonesia
Jakarta World Cinema
02 Oct 2024
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France
Dinard British & Irish Film Festival
11 Oct 2024
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Belgium
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UK
18 Oct 2024
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Brazil
São Paulo International Film Festival
26 Oct 2024
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Australia
Brisbane International Film Festival
06 Nov 2024
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Greece
Thessaloniki film festival
15 Nov 2024
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Egypt
Cairo International Film Festival
Theatrical
19 Feb 2025
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France
Releases by Country
Australia
11 Jun 2024
- Premiere Sydney Film Festival
10 Aug 2024
- Premiere Melbourne International Film Festival
26 Oct 2024
- Premiere Brisbane International Film Festival
Belgium
11 Oct 2024
- Premiere Film Fest Gent
Brazil
18 Oct 2024
- Premiere São Paulo International Film Festival
Egypt
15 Nov 2024
- Premiere Cairo International Film Festival
France
21 May 2024
- Premiere Cannes Film Festival
02 Oct 2024
- Premiere Dinard British & Irish Film Festival
19 Feb 2025
- Theatrical
Greece
06 Nov 2024
- Premiere Thessaloniki film festival
Indonesia
22 Sep 2024
- Premiere Jakarta World Cinema
Norway
18 Aug 2024
- Premiere Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund
Poland
24 Jul 2024
- Premiere New Horizons International Film Festival
UK
11 Oct 2024
- Premiere London Film Festival
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cannes 2024
#9
finally a film that was made with actual
love and care!
a mindfuck of a psychological drama but also a thoroughly authentic perspective on quirky girlhood -
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SFF 2024 #24
Glad to see horse girls finally getting representation in film!Never seen a movie shit the bed more and more as it continued. Genuinely started to piss me off with how I felt absolutely nothing with this.
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A film of two very distinct halves. The first bit is an oddball, deliberately stilted take on girlhood and sibling relationships that teems with feral, off-the-wall energy. A fair bit of Lanthimos here, at least superficially, which makes sense considering the director, and wryly very funny.
The latter half is more mixed. On one hand I appreciate the choice to frame loss as horror, rather than loneliness. Very often, grief is depicted in film as a hopeless sort of solitude, which is a very valid feeling, but trauma has many faces; it's cruel and unpredictable and sometimes nasty. The creepier elements here - eerie dialectic hums and whirs and screeches, bouts of intense and sporadic violence, an…
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Started off strong until they went to the other house and it was all downhill from there. Very predictable and when the pay off happened it was more annoying than satisfying.
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MIFF 24 - Film 49
The biggest surprise of the festival comes right at the end . Had no idea what I was walking into but from the moment it started I was all in on the tone of it and the two sisters .
If you were in my session yes that was me laughing hard up the back . I can honestly say I’ve never laughed harder in a movie .
My only negative would be the reveal would have been so much better if the director gave the audience a bit more credit to figure it out first time .
However a great recovery with the final moments and I just loved everything else about Ariane Labed‘a… -
September Says opens with a shot that seems beemed right in from Dogtooth. A longtime collaborator of her husband Yorgos Lanthimos, it seems fitting that her debut would resemble the style of his Greek films.
It’s a real shame that this weirdness - that works incredibly well in the first half - would succumb to convention later on. Ariane Labed has all the right instincts, just maybe not the correct material.
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Needlessly squanders its brilliant ambiguity in the final few scenes, I think. But otherwise this is a bone-chilling and visceral experience.
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“July, follow September.”
September Says is a promising debut film buoyed by three solid central performances, but undermined by a disastrous final twist.