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Blue Moon

Competition 2025
© Sabrina Lantos / Sony Pictures Classics
“You know how in marriage they say ‘for better or for worse’? I think, in terms of my life, I have entered the ‘for worse’ part, and it happened so quietly I didn’t even recognize it.”
Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon tells the story of the legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart bravely facing the future as his professional and private life unravel during the opening night party for his former partner Richard Rodgers’ hit show, “Oklahoma!”. In 100 minutes, the film unspools in real-time the events in Sardi’s bar on the evening of March 31, 1943. It is a meditation on friendship, art and love, featuring a rich tapestry of writers, actors, musicians, friends and protégés – a parade of the famous and the soon-to-be-famous. By the time this night is over, Hart will have confronted both a world irrevocably changed by the war, and the seeming impossibility of love.
With powerful performances from Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart, Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, Margaret Qualley as Hart’s protégé Elizabeth and Bobby Cannavale as Hart’s bartender, buddy and confidante, the film perfectly captures, with Linklater’s deft, comic touch, a singular, astonishing moment in time.
by Richard Linklater (Director), Robert Kaplow (Screenplay)
with Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott USA / Ireland 2025 English 100' Colour World premiere

With

  • Ethan Hawke (Lorenz Hart)
  • Margaret Qualley (Elizabeth Weiland)
  • Bobby Cannavale (Eddie)
  • Andrew Scott (Richard Rodgers)

Crew

Director Richard Linklater
Screenplay Robert Kaplow
Cinematography Shane F. Kelly
Editing Sandra Adair
Music Graham Reynolds
Sound Design Tom Hammond
Production Design Susie Cullen
Casting Olivia Scott-Webb
Producers Mike Blizzard, John Sloss, Richard Linklater
Executive Producers Steven Farneth, Macdara Kelleher, John Keville, Donna Eperon, Lisa Crnic, David Kingland, Aaron Wiederspahn
Co-Producer Joshua Foster

Produced by

Detour Filmproduction

Austin, USA

Cinetic Media

New York, USA

World Sales

Sony Pictures Classics

New York, USA

Photos

Press Conference

Red Carpet

Madhusree Dutta

© pong film 2026

Madhusree Dutta is a filmmaker, author and cultural producer living in India and Germany. Her areas of interest are hybridity within public and urban culture as well as documentary and archival practices. She is the founder and former director (1998-2016) of Majlis, a centre for interdisciplinary arts initiatives in Mumbai and former artistic director (2018-2021) of the Academy of the Arts of the World (Akademie der Künste der Welt) in Cologne, Germany. With Flying Tigers, Madhusree Dutta returns to filmmaking after twenty years.

Filmography (Filmography)

1993 I Live in Behrampada 1995 Memories of Fear 1997 Sundari: An Actor Prepares; short film 2000 Scribbles on Akka 2002 Made in India 2005 From Here to Here; co-directed by Philip Scheffner 2006 Seven Islands and a Metro 2009 Cinema City Shorts; compilation 2026 Flying Tigers

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026