After Us, The Flood premieres in North America and opens film festival in Croatia
After Us, the Flood will have its North American premiere and has also been selected as the opening film of the Croatian Avant-garde Horror & Fantasy Film Festival
In June, the film will be featured at no fewer than six international film festivals.
After us, The Flood will have its North American premiere in the competition section of the prestigious Dances With Films festival. Held in Los Angeles, Dances With Films has, since its founding in 1998, remained true to its strong independent spirit and has consistently showcased bold new voices in filmmaking. USA Today ranks it among the ten most important North American film festivals, and MovieMaker Magazine lists it among the 25 “coolest” film festivals in the world. The 28th edition of DWF takes place June 19–29, 2025.
Avant-garde Horror & Fantasy Film Festival will be held for the first time from June 5th to 8th. The festival’s core team consists of professionals who have distinguished themselves at major international genre film festivals. In addition to a diverse and high-quality film program, the festival also hosts panel discussions and masterclass workshops for film industry professionals.
After Us, the Flood has quickly become a favorite on the international festival circuit. In addition to DWF in Los Angeles and AGHFFF in Novigrad, the film will be featured in competition during June at Sci-Fi London; Ravenheart Film Festival in Oslo and Fantasy Film Festival in Paris, where it will also open the festival. The film will also screen at the Social World Film Festival in Vico Equense – marking its third festival appearance in Italy.
In October 2025, After Us, the Flood has been selected to compete for the Golden Méliès award for Best European Fantasy Film alongside seven other nominees at the Sitges Festival in Spain.
After Us, the Flood is a bold and uncompromising sci-fi drama about human relationships, greed, and the reasons why humanity struggles to stop climate change. The cast includes Elias Westerberg, Linnea Leino, Tuomas Nilsson, Kasperi Kola, Petteri Summanen, Antti Reini, Pihla Penttinen, Jari Salmi, Tobias Zilliacus, Jemina Sillanpää, Robert Enckell, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Paavo Westerberg, Hugo Komaro, Vilma Sippola, and Andrei Alén.
The film is written by Ossi Hakala and directed by Arto Halonen. After Us, the Flood had its world premiere in October 2024 in the Free Spirit Competition section of the renowned Warsaw International Film Festival. It later won the top prize in its category – the Silver Méliès – at the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival in Italy. In April, the film captivated critics at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF), one of the world’s leading genre film festivals.