Erupcja

  • Monday, Apr 20

Showtimes updated on Tuesday evenings
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OCOpen Captioned
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SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

Erupcja

Opens May 8—Preview Screening and Q&A with director Pete Ohs and writer/actor Jeremy O. Harris on April 20

A romantic vacation goes awry when a volcanic eruption strands Bethany (Charli xcx) and her soon-to-be fiancé Rob (Will Madden) in Warsaw, Poland. Bethany takes the explosive event as a sign to ditch her baggage, reunite with childhood friend Nel (Lena Góra), and traipse across lofts, clubs, and back alleys, all the while becoming entangled in an emotional web that challenges her sense of self.

From American maverick Pete Ohs, who wrote, directed, edited, photographed, and produced this dizzyingly charming European postcard, comes Erupcja, a delightful anti-romantic comedy about the pains and pleasures of being in love.

"Director Pete Ohs juxtaposes the quiet nature of the narrative with straightforward narration that gives the film a novelistic quality."
Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter
"Charli xcx’s casting adds a metatextual richness to the movie and vice-versa, as the friction between her pop star persona and Bethany’s somnambulant everywoman deepens the sense of a woman divided between the superreal and the literal, the spectacular and the mundane."
David Ehrlich, IndieWire

SPECIAL EVENTS

Q&A with director Pete Ohs and actor Jeremy O. Harris Q&A with director Pete Ohs and actor Jeremy O. Harris

Q&A with director Pete Ohs and actor Jeremy O. Harris

Monday, Apr. 20 2026, 7:30

  • Pete Ohs, hailed by Indiewire as “a rising filmmaker well worth the attention,” works as a director, producer, writer, editor and cinematographer. He has produced and directed five feature films in the past five years. In 2025, he was at Sundance with OBEX, a fantasy adventure feature he produced, co-wrote, and shot. This was followed by The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick, a genre-bending horror satire he directed, co-wrote, and shot, premiering at SXSW.
  • Jeremy O. Harris is a Tony-nominated playwright, screenwriter, and actor known for Slave Play (NYTW, Broadway, West End), “Daddy” (New Group/Vineyard, Japan’s Globe, Almeida), Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr), and A24’s Zola. He is the inaugural Creative Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Creative Collective, where his play Spirit of the People had its world premiere. His film Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play. was recently awarded a Cinema Eye Honors. In 2025 he founded his production company, bb², with Josh Godfrey. Their latest film Erupcja premiered at TIFF.

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