​ECO VILLAGE
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A Young drifter Robin hitchhikes to an eco-village advertised online, seeking new inspiration for her passion as a songwriter. Instead, she finds an alternative world of sexual anarchy and drug use, overseen by the watchful eyes of manipulative village founder Ursula. When Robin falls for Jake, a brilliant but tormented handyman, their explosive connection upsets the hierarchy of the community, igniting a catastrophic series of events in this offbeat midnight-movie extravaganza.
Director
PHOEBE NIR
Producers
THERESA REBECK
LINDS GREY
Executive Producers
GIOVANNI LABADESSA
LUCA SEVERI
Cast
SYDNEY FLANIGAN
LINDSAY BURDGE
ALEX BREAUX
DEVIKA BHISE
ERIC AUSTIN​
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Year / Runtime
2025 / 90 MIN
Sales Agent
-
Production Companies
ALL THE FRENZY
LSPG INC
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Country
USA
Seeking inspiration away from the tedium of her bedroom life, young songwriter Robyn (a terrific Sidney Flanigan from Never Rarely Sometimes Always, dir. Eliza Hittman, 2020) runs away and joins a farming commune in upstate New York. There, she meets the village handyman Jake, who comes to the rescue when this city-girl is bitten by a tick. Handsome but tormented, Jake becomes the focus of her intense love. Together they quickly upset the equilibrium of the eco-village ecosystem, a maelstrom of shifting power, manipulation, friendship and lust, all under the watchful eye of village founder Ursula. Events unfold in a sometimes drug-addled frenzy, culminating in an unexpected catastrophic incident straight out of a midnight movie.
Throughout these uncertain alliances and games, music remains Robyn’s salvation and ultimately her transcendence, as it was in her bedroom, but here even more so, like some sort of folk-operatic Gen-Z Wizard of Oz. Music functions not only as subject but informs the structure of the film, like Greek chorus, no doubt inspired by filmmaker Phoebe Nir’s background in musical theatre. The result is an original and spirited take on the coming of age genre, one that also explores the costs of utopia.
Michelle Carey​ - Rotterdam IFF Bright Future Programmer
