A Film Written & Directed by Hagar Ben Asher
English · Feature · ~100 Min · 16:9
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A Fairytale About The End Of The World.
· Cannes · Marché du Film · 2026 ·
— The FilmTen Days.
Ten Fingers.
One Border.
— The PackageAdvanced Development
Shoot Q1 2027 · Territories Open
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×Logline & A Package
After the second civil war tears America apart, a former star — now nobody — has ten days to cross what's left of the country and rescue his two young boys before the final border closes forever. Traveling with a foul-mouthed girl he can't get rid of, he stages a magical puppet show based on their old bedtime stories — believing that even if the war has erased their memory of him, a story, they'll remember.
A survival road movie, with high stakes, humor, and magic.
The Package.

Stage

Advanced development
Draft Q3 2026

Budget

€3M approx.

Director

Hagar Ben Asher
Attached

Shoot

Q1 2027

Lead Cast

Top-tier US male lead.
Names on request.

Delivery

Q4 2027

Producers

Ilya Stewart · Hype
Tom Sidi · O-1

Seeking

Sales agent · Distributors
Financing partners

Language

English · Feature
~100 min

Territories

All available

Financing

Equity · Soft money
Pre-sales

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02 / 10
×The World — The Story
America, 2028.
After the war.

Political

Militia-controlled territories. No central government. The state didn't fall — it was replaced.

Threat

"Whiters" — bounty hunters hired by the militias to hunt down anyone who escaped the camps.

The Stakes

Canada opens its border once. Twelve hours. After that, it's gone.

Tone

Not dystopia. Not sci-fi. A fable — ugly, specific, and occasionally, against all odds, beautiful.

03 / 10
×Story
The journey
is the reckoning.

Adam gets out of the camp with one idea: find his boys. He carries two puppet elephants — built from memory, shaped after the birthmarks his sons were ashamed of. He knows they won't recognize his face. They might recognize the puppets.

What he didn't plan for is Lily — a ten-year-old who has survived everything this world has thrown at her, and refuses to let him die alone in it.

At every stop, Adam performs. The puppet show draws children. It buys time — sometimes food, sometimes passage. And somewhere out there, two boys might still recognize it.

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04 / 10
×The Role & Core Dynamic

The Role: Adam

He's in almost every frame. A former actor who built a career on being watched — now surviving in a world that would kill him for it.

Not sympathetic, exactly. But the kind of person you can't stop watching.

The role demands: emotional restraint · physical endurance · psychological exposure

Core Dynamic

Adam

Rebuilding his capacity to feel in real time, across terrain that keeps making the case against it.

Lily

Never knew the world before the war. No illusions. Doesn't need saving — forces survival.

He drives the story. She disrupts it.

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05 / 10
×Positioning — The Comps
A Survival Film
That Earns Its Feeling.
Road Movie Near-Future Collapse Character Drama
— Primary comps
Paper Moon
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Apocalypse Now
— Other comps
Beasts of the
Southern Wild
Children
of Men
Life is
Beautiful
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06 / 10
×Director — Biography
Hagar
Ben Asher.
Writer · Director
Acclaimed filmmaker whose work has premiered at Cannes, Venice and Tribeca. Recognized for her debut The Slut (Cannes Critics' Week) and The Burglar. She broke into the U.S. market with Dead Women Walking (Tribeca / Venice), then created Bad Boy for Netflix — Top 10 in 48 countries. She has directed for City on a Hill, Bosch, and the pilot of Long Bright River.
— Selected Filmography
2018

Dead Women Walking

Tribeca · Venice

2016

The Burglar

Intl Festival Premiere

2011

The Slut

Cannes · Critics' Week

2007

Pathways

Cannes · Cinéfondation

Hagar Ben Asher
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07 / 10
×Produced By — O-1 × Hype Studios
An O-1 × Hype Studios
Co-Production.
01 · New York
O-1 Productions
Film and television company developing premium, globally-minded stories. Founded by Tom Sidi and Hagar Ben Asher — character-driven storytelling with a distinct visual and tonal voice.
— House Principles
ApproachDirector-driven. Authorship before format.
FormalRestraint over spectacle. The hard cut.
MaterialHard-edged subject, handled with care.
02 · Europe / Global
Hype Studios
Independent film studio founded by Ilya Stewart, Paris and Los Angeles. Known for collaborating with Kirill Serebrennikov, Kornel Mundruczo, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Laszlo Nemes — shepherding titles across the festival circuit.
— Select Filmography
2024 · Competition Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie — Serebrennikov
Upcoming The Idiots — Szumowska & Englert
Upcoming The Revolution According to Kamo — Mundruczo
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08 / 10
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09 / 10
×Contact — Cannes · May 2026
THE END.

Ilya Stewart

Hype Studios
stewart@hypestudios.com

Tom Sidi

O-1 Productions
tom@o1productions.com

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10 / 10