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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #57. Mahalia Belo’s The End We Start From

Published on January 16, 2023

The End We Start From

Her filmography to date was shorts and television and so it says a lot about one’s skillset when a project of this kind becomes one’s first outing. Mahalia Belo was blessed with quite the source material and cast for feature number one. Landing Jodie Comer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong and Katherine Waterston, the British filmmaker
moved into production back in May of ’22 with Cumberbatch as one of the producers. Written by Alice Birch (scribe for Lady Macbeth) The End We Start From becomes a high-value acquisitions title – one that highlights motherhood, survival and hope. We imagine this might be within the same vein as The Road and Children of Men.

Gist: A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.

Release Date/Prediction: We think this title would be heading to Toronto, with possible Telluride and London BFI showcases booking ending a gala premiere.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).