Next Life

Local title
Teine elu
Director
Drake Doremus
Year
2026
Festival
21st Tartuff
Programme
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Emilia Clarke and Edgar Ramírez sing in a romantic drama exploring the unpredictable shades of love.

A cup of coffee, love, dreams, second chances, crucial decisions, and the sliding doors of a train – all controlling a multitude of unforeseen, unpredictable things in life.

Two parallel stories are connected by Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”, “Me Before You”) on a fateful train ride to London, where she is given two fantastic paths to choose from. If singer Ivy accidentally spills her coffee, she will meet jazz musician Diego (played by Venezuelan superstar Edgar Ramírez) and get a chance to realise her long-held musical aspirations. If Ivy is more attentive and drinks her coffee without incident, she will return to her former fiancé and boss, Noah, a man who prefers a different kind of Ivy, one without too many personal ambitions, and who once broke her heart.

Which option is better or safer to take? This life, the next life, or perhaps another life altogether. Whichever path she chooses will involve plenty of wonderfully captivating music and songs, blissfully performed by Emilia and Edgar. In this romance, music acts like another character entirely, one that might even help Ivy avoid getting lost between two parallel lives.

Not so long ago, Sundance winner Drake Doremus (“Like Crazy”) radically changed his own life on a train. So, this might just be real.

Director
Drake Doremus
Screenwriter
Drake Doremus
Cast
Emilia Clarke, Édgar Ramírez, Jack Farthing
Producer
Ben Pugh, Kate Buckley, Elika Portnoy, Gleb Fetisov, Drake Doremus, Emilia Clarke, John Palfery Smith
Cinematographer
Marianne Bakke
Production Design
Elizabeth Mary Moore
Editing
Avner Shiloah
Composer
Dan Romer
Production
42, Magical Thinking Pictures
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Screenings

Open Air Cinema Town Hall Square
Screening070121 / Teine elu
SubtitlesEstonian
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