Bad Moon Rising

Bad Moon Rising is the new feature film from award-winning director Erik Poppe (Quisling: The Final Days, The Emigrants, A Thousand Times Good Night), based on the first ever original screenplay for the screen by Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse. Shooting will begin in the fall of 2025 and will take place in Norway and in Sweden’s Västra Götaland. Produced by Paradox in co-production with Film i Väst and others.

In Fosse's distinctive, minimalist style, the unsaid is conveyed through sparse dialogue, surprising shifts, and a brutally beautiful landscape. She and He find each other, become parents to a boy, and for a while, their happiness is complete. But her roots in their homeland run deeper than his, and the distance between them grows. Loneliness eats away, love fades, language slowly disintegrates, and the inevitable question arises: “How much distance can love endure before it bursts?”

"This is, paradoxically, an extraordinarily beautiful story about the dissolution of a relationship. Every project must explore new spaces I have not yet inhabited—spaces unlike anything I have done before. A story that has not yet been told to an audience. Bad Moon Rising is a painful, visual, and powerful story about the fragility of love and the power of longing. This is the most demanding project I have ever embarked on. I am now mobilizing all my experience to create a seductive and gripping film that will invite you into Jon Fosse's rich and dramatic universe—through the lens of my temperament,” says Erik Poppe, director.

The film is produced by Finn Gjerdrum, Njål Lambrecht and Rebecca Mathisen for Paradox in co-production with True West AS, Mediefondet Zefyr, SF Studios and Film i Väst. SF Studios distributes the film in the Nordics with REinvent handling international sales.