{"id":372446,"date":"2026-03-07T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/372446\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:43:10","slug":"emma-laird-leads-tense-love-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/372446\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Laird Leads Tense Love Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Following its SXSW premiere last March, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/satisfaction\/\" id=\"auto-tag_satisfaction\" data-tag=\"satisfaction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Satisfaction<\/a> is continuing its international festival run this weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn an exclusive new clip from the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/alex-burunova\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alex-burunova\" data-tag=\"alex-burunova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Burunova<\/a>-written\/directed drama, which makes its U.K. premiere on Saturday at Glasgow Film Festival, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/emma-laird\/\" id=\"auto-tag_emma-laird\" data-tag=\"emma-laird\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Laird<\/a>\u2018s Lola has a tense exchange with her partner Philip (Fionn Whitehead) over dinner with their new acquaintance Elena (Zar Amir) during a Greek holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSet on an unnamed Greek island, Satisfaction stars Laird as a young artist attempting to reclaim her voice\u2014both creatively and intimately\u2014while navigating a complicated relationship with her boyfriend (Whitehead), a fellow musician. When another woman (Zar Amir) enters the picture, buried tensions rise to the surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAs human beings, we\u2019re 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,\u201d said Burunova at Deadline\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/video\/satisfaction-alex-burunova-relationship-drama-sxsw\/\">SXSW Studio<\/a>. \u201cAnd so, this story is a little bit about that self-erasure and losing yourself in another person in the name of love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-06-at-5.46.57\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"Fionn Whitehead, Emma Laird and Zar Amir Ebrahimi in 'Satisfaction' (2025)\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tFionn Whitehead, Emma Laird and Zar Amir Ebrahimi in \u2018Satisfaction\u2019 (2025)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPerfect Circle Films<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWritten, 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUTA Independent Film Group is repping North American rights, with international handled by Miguel Govea and Brett Walker at Alief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Following its SXSW premiere last March, Satisfaction is continuing its international festival run this weekend. 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