Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Actors: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone return to cinemas with their fifth collaboration – the gripping absurdist black comedy, Bugonia. Bugonia, based on Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 film Save the Green Planet!, follows two men who abduct a CEO, believing in a conspiracy that she is an alien whose mission is to destroy humanity.

Emma Stone plays Michelle Fuller, the cutthroat and ruthless CEO of Auxolith, a pharmaceutical company. She has mastered the use of duplicitous platitudes to appear to propagate an inclusive corporate culture in her sterile, soulless white office. Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis play Teddy Gatz and his neurodivergent cousin Don, beekeepers, incels, and conspiracy theorists who believe Michelle is an alien and that bees are dying from colony collapse disorder caused by Auxolith’s pesticides. Lanthimos links Teddy’s paranoia to grief, depicting in flashbacks how Teddy’s mother became comatose after taking an experimental drug manufactured by Auxolith. Their plot to free Earth involves using Michelle as a bargaining chip to secure an audience with the Andromedan Emperor and to persuade aliens to leave the planet. Bugonia derives its title from the ancient Greek ritual of generating bees from the carcass of oxen, alluding to the new era Teddy wants to usher in.