Joaquin Phoenix (Beau is Afraid, Her) and Pedro Pascal (Materialists, The Last of Us) lead a community of powerhouse performances in the newest entry in Ari Aster’s (Midsommar, Hereditary) catalogue of unsettling dystopian dramas. Introducing EDDINGTON; a white-knuckle, black-comedy western that holds up a mirror to the American socio-political chaos. In the summer of 2020, the town of Eddington is beginning to become restless. As mask mandates, protests, and a mayoral re-election filter throughout Sheriff Joe Cross’ (Phoenix) county, he decides to take everyone’s welfare into his own hands and run for office. Pitting himself against the current mayor, Ted Garcia (Pascal), this fight for leadership spills out into the public, helping ignite the powder keg of agitation and anarchy sweeping through Eddington. Premiering In Competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and featuring supporting superstars including Oscar-winner Emma Stone (Poor Things), Oscar-nominee Austin Butler (Elvis), Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Deidre O’Connell (The Penguin), and Michael Ward (Empire of Light), Aster employs humorous yet thought-provoking satire to capture the social horrors and political divide of the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic world. EDDINGTON is an audacious culture-shaking event film - provocative, urgent, and impossible to ignore - that unpacks the forces that led to where we are today.