After the Act

Project type: Feature Film

Date: 2025

Role: Colorist

After the Act is a European arthouse film exploring love’s complexity, betrayal and self-acceptance.

Sam and Mia, two writers at different stages of their careers, share the routines of daily life in Sam’s Berlin apartment. But beneath the surface of their affection, tension quietly builds until a casual remark about their friend Becca reveals a devastating betrayal. Over the course of a single day and night, the three friends face the slow fracture of trust, each drawn to choices shaped by guilt, self-preservation, and the fragile hope that love might still survive the damage.

Directors Ivan Malekin & Sarah Jayne’s filmmaking style is deeply rooted in the traditions of arthouse and slow cinema. They find inspiration from Éric Rohmer’s observational intimacy, Hong Sang-soo’s elliptical honesty, and the raw, lived-in immediacy of Berlin mumblecore.