THE SUN BENEATH (WT)

Dark Fairytale | approx. 90 min | Suitable for audiences 12 and above

When the police arrive to deport her family, 13-year-old Amara flees with her six-year-old brother David, heading north toward a Sweden that exists more in stories than on maps. To keep him calm and moving, she begins to weave the tales their father once told them — of a melancholic king born from the earth, a golden lioness who protects lost children, and a red sun veined with black that must not be allowed to fade. As they hide in forests, abandoned factories and train yards, the world around them starts to echo these stories: gardens turn into traps, shadows take shape, and a relentless cowboy hunts them through fields of oil and fire. What begins as a way to shield her brother from fear becomes Amara’s strategy for survival — by rewriting their reality as myth, she reclaims agency in a world determined to push them out of sight. 

Inspired by the golden age of dark fantasy — when fairytales were allowed to be unsettling, poetic and politically charged — the film combines grounded realism with AI-assisted visual worlds, subtly blurring the boundaries between imagination and reality. The script is currently in development, and we are seeking creative collaborators, funding partners, and international co-production opportunities.