Watch the Unsettling UK Trailer For Ariane Labed’s September Says

MUBI have released the unsettling UK Trailer for Ariane Labed’s dark drama September Says.

The film, made its World Premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. It did tour a few other festivals including BFI London Film Festival and currently at Rotterdam.

September Says is based on the acclaimed novel Sisters by Daisy Johnson. It stars Screen Star of Tomorrow 2024 Mia Tharia (The Listeners, Phoenix Rise) as July, Rakhee Thakrar (Wonka, Sex Education) as Sheela, and introduces Pascale Kann as September.

The film is a dark and unsettling exploration of sisterhood.July and September are very close, even created their own language. When something happens at school resulting in September’s suspension worries their mother to take action.

Delving into the dark complexities of sisterhood, adolescence and femininity, September Says is the haunting feature filmmaking debut from Ariane Labed. ​​Teenage sisters September and July share an intensely close but unsettling bond, speaking their own secret language and keeping the outside world at a distance. When a mysterious incident at school results in September’s suspension, their mother Sheela, deeply concerned about the sisters’ troubling behaviour, takes them to an isolated house on the windswept Irish coast. However, the secluded setting only amplifies the family’s tensions as July begins to challenge September’s increasingly sadistic commands. Based on the acclaimed novel ‘Sisters’ by Daisy Johnson, this uniquely eerie portrait of girlhood features remarkable debut performances from leads Pascale Kann and Mia Tharia, and marks the arrival of a bold and distinct new cinematic voice in Labed.

September Says will make it’s UK Cinema debut later this month on 21st February.