[Video] The Liberation Begins U.S. Limited Release on November 6: Guy Nattiv Draws on His Grandmother's Story, Starring Carrie Coon and Lily James, Wide Release Set for January 8, 2027
NEW YORK — The psychological drama The Liberation began its limited theatrical release in the United States on November 6, 2026, including an awards-qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles, with distributor Bleecker Street set to expand the film on January 8, 2027. The film is directed by Guy Nattiv, co-written by Nattiv and Noa Berman-Herzberg, and inspired by real events from the life of Nattiv's own grandmother.
According to the distributor's published materials, the story is set in suburban New Jersey in the early 1980s. Rita (Carrie Coon), a woman in midlife with a banking job, a comfortable home and a family, is haunted by the weight of her past. She encounters a magnetic young spiritual leader, Ricki (Lily James), and leaves her family to follow her to an all-female commune. Bella Ramsey and Odessa Young play Rita's daughters, and Tracy Letts also stars. Nattiv's grandmother was a Holocaust survivor who, later in life, left her husband and children and joined an all-female commune; the film adapts that family history across two timelines, in 1982 and 1984.
The Liberation premiered at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival on September 4, 2026, and went on to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. Bleecker Street released the first official trailer on November 2 with the tagline "Community comes at a cost." The film was produced by Sight Unseen Pictures, Scythia Films, New Native Pictures and Spooky Pictures, and is dedicated to Bleecker Street's late founder, Andrew Karpen.
Source: Bleecker Street
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Photo: 图：《The Liberation》主演莉莉·詹姆斯出席伦敦电影节（本片在该节展映）。Wikimedia Commons，Mateusz Malta 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，已预裁16:9。/ Lily James, star of The Liberation, at the BFI London Film Festival, where the film screened. Wikimedia Commons, by Mateusz Malta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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