EXCLUSIVE: Following its SXSW premiere last March, Satisfaction is continuing its international festival run this weekend.
In an exclusive new clip from the Alex Burunova-written/directed drama, which makes its U.K. premiere on Saturday at Glasgow Film Festival, Emma Laird‘s Lola has a tense exchange with her partner Philip (Fionn Whitehead) over dinner with their new acquaintance Elena (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) during a Greek holiday.
Following Glasgow on March 7-8, the film will screen this month at BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival on March 22-23 and Manchester Film Festival on March 23.
Set on an unnamed Greek island, Satisfaction stars Laird as a young artist attempting to reclaim her voice—both creatively and intimately—while navigating a complicated relationship with her boyfriend (Whitehead), a fellow musician. When another woman (Ebrahimi) enters the picture, buried tensions rise to the surface.
“As human beings, we;re all programmed to long for love and to want it, and sometimes, we kind of make wrong choices to be loved or to feel that feeling, and we betray ourselves,” said Burunova at Deadline’s SXSW Studio. “And so, this story is a little bit about that self-erasure and losing yourself in another person in the name of love.”
Fionn Whitehead, Emma Laird and Zar Amir Ebrahimi in ‘Satisfaction’ (2025)
Perfect Circle Films
Written, directed and produced by Burunova for Perfect Circle Films (represented by Jeremy Berney at Mosaic), producers include Rafael Thomaseto and Helena Sardinha for Driven Equation, Kyle Stroud for Carte Blanche, and Iryna Asonova for Constant Production. Executive producers are Zar Amir, Tom Ogden, Joseph C. Grano, Alex Ross, Lauren Melinda, Davide Luchetti, Anna Elizabeth James and Motti Mintzer.
UTA Independent Film Group is repping North American rights, with international handled by Miguel Govea and Brett Walker at Alief.
