Eternity

The 14th Annual Key West Film Festival kicks off on November 12, 2025. The festival will open with the Miles Teller  and Elizabeth Olsen film ETERNITY, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year.

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.

Out of everyone you have ever loved, who should be your partner in the hereafter? This is the question at the core of this transporting fantasy dramedy from director David Freyne, starring Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, and Miles Teller as souls in transit tangled in a troubled love triangle.

Following decades of marriage, elderly couple Joan (Olsen) and Larry (Teller) die within a week of each other. That means they needn’t wait long to reunite in the afterlife, a way station where every soul has one week to decide who to spend the rest of eternity with. (Here, everyone reverts to the appearance and age of their happiest moment, hence the young cast.)

For Joan and Larry, the answer would seem to be straightforward. Enter Luke (Turner), Joan’s first husband, who died in the Korean War and has been waiting 67 years to have his one-and-only back in his arms. Does Joan choose to revive the passionate love of her youth? Or does she stick with the time-tested fortitude of her second marriage?

An ingeniously original contribution to the afterlife-as-bureaucracy subgenre fostered in films like Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life, Eternity is, at heart, about the dilemmas we all face surrounding desire and devotion. Olsen, Turner, and Teller each offer playful, heartfelt performances, immersing us in a milieu that is at once fanciful and somehow familiar.

What's your eternity of choice?

Starts at Luna Leederville and Luna on SX on December 4.