Bunker

When an architect accepts a morally ambiguous project – building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire – his wife begins to question their marriage after seventeen years together.
Bunker is a dramatic thriller that examines the emotional and moral challenges faced by a couple as the anxieties of an increasingly uncertain world begin to reshape their marriage, exploring the fears, doubts and ethical dilemmas that define our time.

A few years ago, I came across an article about a tech billionaire building a survivalist bunker in Hawaii. I remember asking myself: “Does he know something we do not?” It struck me as a fascinating paradox: the man who had built his fortune on connecting people was now isolating himself from the world. Aren’t we all, in some way, drifting apart like islands?
Bunker touches on several times contemporary themes – fear of the future, ecological threats, rising social inequality, and rampant individualism–but it does so through a deeply personal lens: a couple struggling with each other.
I wrote Bunker for Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who were both the starting point and inspiration for this project — not only because they are among the most gifted actors working today, but also because they are an iconic couple. I wanted to explore love, fidelity and forgiveness while placing the audience in a position of deliberate ambiguity. What exactly are we being invited to witness? A glimpse of reality? Fiction? Or a meta-examination of the truth?
In that sense, Bunker invites us to follow the journey of reconciliation between a man and a woman who love each other, but who, at life’s midpoint, must now find a new way to express that love.

PRODUCTION 1:
Blue Morning Pictures - Federica Sainte-Rose, Florian Zeller
624 N Maple Dr, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, United States of America
E-mail: fsainterose@bluemorning-pictures.com

PRODUCTION 2:
MOD Producciones - Fernando Bovaira, Simon De Santiago
Paseo de la Habana, 12
28036 Madrid, Spain
E-mail: info@modmedia.es

WORLD SALES:
Filmnation Entertainment - Alice Laffillé
150 W 22nd Street
10011 New York, United States of America
E-mail: alaffille@filmnation.com

ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION:
Notorious - Irene Tomio
Largo Brindisi 2
00182 Rome, Italy
E-mail: i.tomio@notoriouspictures.it

PRESS OFFICE:
DDA
E-mail: bunker@ddaglobal.com

ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE:
Pierluigi Manzo, Alessio Piccirillo – MANZOPICCIRILLO
Tel: +39 3470133173 / +39 393.9328580
E-mail: info@manzopiccirillo.com