Mare's Nest

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Mare's Nest

Jun 2026

1h 38m

Drama

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

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13 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Moon travels through a mysterious world free of adults. She meets a sage, and her translator, in a mountain hut, where she tries to understand what is happening. She meets many others who show her different possibilities for living. She observes and moves on into an unknown future.

David Jenkins

Little White Lies

Jun 5, 2026

It’s best not to exert too much energy attempting to divulge a simple meaning to this story, as all of Rivers’ best work.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Nov 26, 2025

4/5

It is opaque but with flashes of strange brilliance.

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Lucy Peters

Little White Lies

Oct 22, 2025

Shot beautifully on 16mm, it serves as the perfect cinematic antidote to technological burnout, albeit with a strangely sinister underbelly.

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Joseph Fahim

BFI

Jul 21, 2026

[Ben] Rivers has produced his most hopeful feature to date: a film suggesting that, to see, feel, and absorb this newly refurbished world, one must adopt unknowing eyes.

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Peter Keough

Arts Fuse

Jun 26, 2026

This adaptation by Ben Rivers, who is a painter as well as a filmmaker, brings a vivid visual sense to a stage-bound production, though it fails to do justice to the author’s dense linguistic preoccupations

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Sparks Lowry

Spectrum Culture

Jun 25, 2026

Ben Rivers has clearly evolved into a filmmaking phase where he wears his concerns more openly on his sleeve, but at what cost?

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jun 24, 2026

Success in 1 hour and 38 minutes. All ages admitted worldwide.

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Synopsis

Moon travels through a mysterious world free of adults. She meets a sage, and her translator, in a mountain hut, where she tries to understand what is happening. She meets many others who show her different possibilities for living. She observes and moves on into an unknown future.

Director: Ben Rivers
Producer: Ben Rivers, Andrea Queralt, Aonan Yang
Screenwriter: Ben Rivers
Distributor: Grasshopper Film
Production Co: Urth Films, 4A4 Productions
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 24, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 1h 38m

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