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THE AFTERLIGHT

"intoxicating beauty." New York Times

"truly poetic lustrous cinematography" Chicago Sun-Times

"Beautifully composed." Chicago Reader

"cryptic images of ominous beauty, held together by pure surface tension, exert a strange fascination." Variety

"Alexei Kaleina and Craig Macneill's proudly minimalist affair favors ambiguity over soap-operatics, evoking the inescapable heartache of a loss so great, it cannot be uttered." TimeOut NY

"Stunning cinematic debut a film guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat." i-D Magazine

At an abandoned schoolhouse, a young couple confronts the dark and the unexpected.

Starring Michael Kelly (Fair Game, Law Abiding Citizen), Jicky Schnee (Perestroika), Ana Asensio (Zenith), and Rip Torn

In a haunting and beautiful countryside, a young couple hopes to start a new life. Andrew and Claire find themselves far from their roots. They move into an old schooldhouse that sits on a farm owned by an elderly widow and her blind niece, Maria. The couple's arrival sets off events that will alter all the lives of everyone around them. As tensions build, a late summer thunderstorm and a solar eclipse trigger dark outcomes.