Afire(2023)

Sideshow Releasing

1h 42m

Release Date: Jul 14, 2023

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A group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.

Note: German w/ English Subtitles

Release Details

Original Release | Jul 14, 2023 | Limited

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Box Office Results

2025-04-29T02:54:07.473Z

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$38,485
Total US & Canada:
$244,803
Total International
$2,050,694
Total Worldwide:
$2,295,497

Current Showtimes

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Mon Sep 21
Tue Sep 22
Wed Sep 23
Thu Sep 24
Fri Sep 25
Sat Sep 26
Sun Sep 27

Director & Top Cast

Christian Petzold
Director

Thomas Schubert
Leon

Paula Beer
Nadja

Langston Uibel
Felix

Enno Trebs
Devid

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Germany

Language: German

Summaries

Storyline

A summer on the Baltic Sea. It is hot and dry, and it hasn't rained for weeks. Four young people meet in a remote vacation home between the forest and the sea: Leon and Felix, friends since childhood, Nadja, who works as a seasonal worker in the coastal village, and Devid, the lifeguard. While Leon, following the success of his debut novel, increasingly isolates himself due to the pressure now weighing on his second work, Nadja, Felix, and Devid spend happy moments together. They go swimming, cook together, and Felix, inspired by Devid, photographs beach-goers for his art school application portfolio. These are suspended days, as if fallen out of this world. But a barely perceptible sense of danger lies beneath the carefree nature of this summer. And just as a spark is enough to set the dry forests around them on fire, so too does it happen to the young people with their feelings and hopes, with love. There is happiness and longing, but also jealousy, sensitivities, tensions. Then the flames spread. In one night, the fire eats its way through the forest near the vacation home. One night after which nothing will ever be the same again. It could be a beginning. — Arte

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