by Dark Star Pictures is releasing director Caroline Ingvarsson’s psychological noir thriller UNMOORED today on Digital and On Demand platforms.
Based on Håkan Nesser’s novel The Living and the Dead in Winsford, the film follows a successful TV host whose life is turned upside down by shocking accusations made against her husband, forcing them to head south on sabbatical.
UNMOORED has screened at BFI London Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights, and then Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2024.
The cast includes Mirja Turestedt (Millennium, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Barracuda, Queens), Thomas W. Gabrielsson (Margrete – Queen of the North, Borgen, A Royal Affair), Kris Hitchen (Sorry We Missed You, Trigger Point, The North Water), Sven Ahlström, Anna Próchniak, Martha Marta Zmuda Trzebiatowska, and Ia Langhammer.
UNMOORED Synopsis
Maria is a successful Swedish TV presenter whose life is turned upside down by shocking accusations made against her husband. To avoid the media attention, they head south on sabbatical. However, an unexpected confrontation triggers a desperate chain of events. Alone, Maria flees to the solitude of the English moors, but her new idyll soon turns to paranoia. As her guilt grows, she is forced to examine the depths of her own self-deception in this psychological suspense drama.
