Burn of the Sun
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Burn of the SunPress kit

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Logline

In a dystopian future where sunlight kills, two twins must fight a battle between their instincts that tear them apart, and the bond holding them together.

Synopsis

The sun has turned the world into a graveyard by day. Nineteen-year-old twins Kade and Agnes hide at dawn and move by night, guided by the rules their parents left behind and a map drawn by their father. Kade trusts the rules. Agnes has begun to wonder whether surviving is the same as living. Then they meet a stranger, and hear a rumour of something in the north.

Longer synopsis

The sun was supposed to keep us alive. Instead, it became the most dangerous thing there is. By day it burns the skin, and the landscape is dry, silent and unforgiving. Water is scarce, and trust can cost you your life.

Twins Kade and Agnes have survived for years by their parents’ rules: hide at dawn, move by night, trust no one. They carry a map their father drew by hand, and the stars their mother taught Agnes to read.

Kade, logical and exacting, treats the rules as scripture. Everything is about keeping his sister alive. Agnes, intuitive and curious, has begun to wonder whether there is more to life than surviving. When a stranger crosses their path with a rumour of something in the north, the two of them must face the question they have long avoided: what do we owe the people we love, and when does protection become a form of control?

BURN OF THE SUN is a quiet, intimate story set in a vast and brutal world, about siblings, belief, and the difference between surviving and living.

Director’s statement

My passion is to create films with an emotional core. Burn of the Sun is a way to challenge myself with a bigger, more genre-driven world, but I want the drama to stay at the heart of it. However harsh the world around them, the film is about two people trying to understand each other.

Burn of the Sun is not simply about a world where sunlight is dangerous. It is about the difference between surviving and living, and about how we remain close to the people we love when we no longer believe in the same things.

Regina Alfnes — writer & director

Concept stills

A young woman looks back over her shoulder at the camera, holding a blue scarf over her face. Orange backlight sets her hair aglow, and a blurred figure in gauze stands behind her.
  • A young woman with auburn hair and freckles looks straight into the camera. Copper goggles are pushed up on her head, a blue-grey scarf is wrapped around her neck, and hard side light casts a shadow across her face.
  • Two young people face each other in front of a dark wall as a gust of wind whips the blue scarf of the woman on the right.
  • Two young people in gauze and copper goggles stand on the sand in front of a dark cliff. The sun breaks over the edge behind them, and a dead tree stands in silhouette against the sky.
  • Close-up of a young man with his face wrapped in sand-coloured gauze. Only his eyes show beneath the copper goggles as he looks out at a pale, empty sky to the left.
  • Two young people sit on a rock in golden backlight. The woman in front looks into the camera over her scarf, wearing copper goggles and a mustard knitted scarf. Behind her sits a figure wrapped in gauze.