“The Hunt” .. when the past chases you inside the walls of the university art

Italian director Luka Guadanino was famous for his unique visual vision that blends elegance and aesthetic accuracy, as he gives every snapshot of attention to details, which makes his fans awaited his work with passion to discover captivating images, visual symbols and metaphors that give a magical character to his films.

Guadanino is returning this year with a new movie entitled “After the Hunt”, and it finally finished filming it. The film belongs to the quality of drama charged with suspense and psychological excitement, and its events revolve in a university academic atmosphere. The scenario, Nora Garrett, wrote, in one of her first experiences in this field, and the film raises the topic of sharp divisions between humans, and how it can lead to extremist and violent positions, in an explicit reflection of our contemporary reality. The film is scheduled to be shown in American cinemas on October 10, with its expansion expanding on the 17th of the same month, making it a strong candidate to enter the award race, led by an Academy Awards for the year 2026.

New conflict and old secrets

Participates in the movie star Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield, along with Michael Stolbarg and Clawy Seifani. Its events revolve around the university professor, “Alma Oson”, who turns her life upside down when she finds herself in the heart of a crisis that she was not a party, after the student “Mavi” – who embodies the role of Iowo Edbiri – is a colleague of “Alma” and her close friend “Henrik” (his role in Garfield) of harassment and attack.

While her academic position shakes and doubts begin in its vicinity, “Alma” finds herself forced to face a past that she tried for a long time. Among the professional pressures and moral divisions, it stands at a crucial crossroads, in which you fear that this tragic accident will be revealed in the past in the past, but it is now threatening to go out in public.

The film’s propaganda section offers a preliminary glimpse of the main characters, as it clearly appears to be the admiration of the student “Maggie” with Professor “Alma Oson”, in exchange for a noticeable tension in her relationship with “Henrik”. In the midst of this, Alma is busy with her personal crisis, as she finds herself obliged to face a past that she believed that he had ended forever.

The film touches the issues of sexual harassment and assault, which have great momentum and turned into public opinion issues, especially after the launch of the #Metoo campaign, which changed the societal view towards the victims and has reshaped the speech in these sensitive issues.

This work is expected to be a qualitative addition to the Luka Guadanino’s career, which has always been distinguished by its ability to dive into the dark and complex psychological worlds with its unique directing style. Guadanino considered Julia Roberts’s performance in this best film in her career, the same opinion adopted by a number of her colleagues participating in the championship.

Early shows of the film

The film was shown in a experimental show in December 2024, and last April, rumors of the film’s screening, and the Fariti magazine reported that the film may be shown for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival, and Guadanino may ignore the Venice Festival, but the followers of the Guadanino march know that he did not show any of his films at the Cannes Festival before, and 7 films have shown him at the Venice Festival, except for a movie “Call me in your name”, which was shown at the Sandans Festival in 2017 and achieved great success, and the movie “Melissa”, which was not shown at any festival.