STUDIOCANAL today reveals an exclusive look at the first trailer and poster for THE OUTRUN, starring four-time Oscar ® Nominee Saoirse Ronan (LADY BIRD) alongside Emmy nominee Paapa Essiedu (I MAY DESTROY YOU), BAFTA winner Stephen Dillane (ALEX RIDER) and Saskia Reeves (SLOW HORSES).
Directed by Nora Fingscheidt (SYSTEM CRASHER), THE OUTRUN debuted to critical acclaim at Sundance and the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, and will have its UK premiere as the Opening Night film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in August.
THE OUTRUN will be released in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on Friday 27 September 2024.
Adapted from the best-selling memoir of the same name by Amy Liptrot, THE OUTRUN is a searingly honest drama about addiction, survival and the power of nature to restore life and renew hope, set in the wild northern Orkney islands.
After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Saoirse Ronan) returns home to the Orkney Islands.
Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on this journey of recovery.
Slowly the beauty and lore of the land enters her inner world and – one day at a time – Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.
THE OUTRUN was developed by Sarah Brocklehurst of Brock Media, Dominic Norris of Arcade Pictures, Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden, with the support of BBC Film and Screen Scotland.
Brocklehurst, Norris, Ronan and Lowden produced the film, and were joined by co-producers Jonas Weydemann and Jakob D. Weydemann of Weydemann Bros, and Shirin Hartmann.
Protagonist Pictures has arranged the financing, with Luane Gauer, Janina Vilsmaier, George Hamilton and James Pugh executive producing alongside Claudia Yusef for BBC Film, Kieran Hannigan for Screen Scotland and Maria Logan and Anne Sheehan for MBK Productions.
Liptrot’s memoir of the same name won the 2016 Wainwright Prize and the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize and was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The book was translated into 15 languages, selling over 110,000 copies in the UK alone, and was added by publisher Canongate to its modern classics list, The Canons.
Directed by Nora Fingscheidt (SYSTEM CRASHER), THE OUTRUN debuted to critical acclaim at Sundance and the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, and will have its UK premiere as the Opening Night film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in August.
THE OUTRUN will be released in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on Friday 27 September 2024.
Adapted from the best-selling memoir of the same name by Amy Liptrot, THE OUTRUN is a searingly honest drama about addiction, survival and the power of nature to restore life and renew hope, set in the wild northern Orkney islands.
After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Saoirse Ronan) returns home to the Orkney Islands.
Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on this journey of recovery.
Slowly the beauty and lore of the land enters her inner world and – one day at a time – Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.
THE OUTRUN was developed by Sarah Brocklehurst of Brock Media, Dominic Norris of Arcade Pictures, Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden, with the support of BBC Film and Screen Scotland.
Brocklehurst, Norris, Ronan and Lowden produced the film, and were joined by co-producers Jonas Weydemann and Jakob D. Weydemann of Weydemann Bros, and Shirin Hartmann.
Protagonist Pictures has arranged the financing, with Luane Gauer, Janina Vilsmaier, George Hamilton and James Pugh executive producing alongside Claudia Yusef for BBC Film, Kieran Hannigan for Screen Scotland and Maria Logan and Anne Sheehan for MBK Productions.
Liptrot’s memoir of the same name won the 2016 Wainwright Prize and the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize and was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The book was translated into 15 languages, selling over 110,000 copies in the UK alone, and was added by publisher Canongate to its modern classics list, The Canons.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02 Sometimes you can feel a vibration in Orkney,
00:06 a low rumble that takes over the whole island
00:10 and every part of your body.
00:12 [SCREAMING]
00:14 [THUNDER]
00:16 But there is only so much height any wave can sustain
00:20 before it comes crashing down.
00:21 [SCREAMING]
00:24 [THUD]
00:25 [YELLING]
00:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:30 I'm sorry.
00:30 I can't hear you say that again.
00:32 I wish you a completely different person.
00:35 The urge to drink can come out of nowhere.
00:38 You think you're doing well.
00:40 Suddenly, you want nothing more than a drink.
00:42 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:45 How does London compare to Parby?
00:49 A bit more going on, I guess.
00:52 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:55 So how long do you think you'll stay here for?
00:58 I have a life that I have to get back to.
01:01 How's mom?
01:02 She offered to put me into her prayers.
01:06 [LAUGHING]
01:07 I'm scared.
01:09 I miss it.
01:10 I miss how good it made me feel.
01:12 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:13 (SINGING) 'Cause the love you need is gentle.
01:16 The love you need is kind.
01:19 I figured that out on this alone time.
01:23 [THUD]
01:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:27 Hi.
01:28 So how long you been sober?
01:30 63 days.
01:31 It never gets easy.
01:33 Just gets less hard.
01:34 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:37 My body is a continent.
01:42 My breath pushes the clouds across the sky.
01:45 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:48 And the waves roll into the shore in time
01:51 with my beating heart.
01:53 [SCREAMING]
01:55 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:59 (air whooshing)
02:01 (whooshing)