How to Watch Erupcja Online in 4K

Erupcja is a drama film directed and produced by Pete Ohs, set in Warsaw, Poland, in which two women's romantic lives become increasingly complicated when a volcano erupts in the city. The film stars Charli XCX, Lena Góra, Jeremy O. Harris, and Will Madden, with a screenplay co-written by all four. It had its world premiere in the Centrepiece section of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 4, 2025, and was released in cinemas in the United States on April 17, 2026. The film also screened at MoMA as part of the New Directors/New Films 2026 programme. InfinityTV's library of 150,000+ Movies & Series will carry Erupcja in 4K when the streaming window opens.

What Is Erupcja?

Erupcja is a 2025 Polish-set drama film directed and produced by Pete Ohs (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away, Jethica). The screenplay was co-written by Ohs, Jeremy O. Harris (playwright, Slave Play), Charli XCX (musician and performer), Lena Góra (Polish actress), and Will Madden. The film is an unusual collaborative production in which the four principal cast members each contributed to the writing.

Erupcja is the Polish word for "eruption."

The Plot

The film is set in Warsaw, Poland. Nel (Lena Góra) lives in Warsaw and works at a flower shop. She has a settled, quiet life. When her childhood friend Bethany (Charli XCX) comes to visit with a new boyfriend in tow, the two women begin to complicate their romantic lives — existing relationships are tested and new desires surface.

Then, unexpectedly, a volcano erupts.

The eruption is not realistic or geological in the conventional sense — Poland has no volcanoes and Warsaw is not in any seismic zone. The volcano functions in the film as a surrealist, symbolic event: an externalization of the emotional disruption that the characters are already experiencing internally. It is in the tradition of magical realism in cinema, where an impossible or absurd event is treated with complete naturalism by the film's world while carrying metaphorical weight.

The film runs 71 minutes — a deliberately compact runtime that concentrates rather than dilutes its effects.

The film is made in both Polish and English, with English subtitles. The code-switching between the two languages reflects the mixed cultural spaces the characters inhabit: Nel's Polish domestic life and Bethany's transatlantic visitor world existing alongside each other.

The Collaborative Screenplay

The co-writing arrangement between Ohs, Harris, XCX, Góra, and Madden is unusual in commercial cinema but has precedent in the art-film world — particularly films that emerge from extended workshopping processes between director and actors. The result is described in reviews as naturalistic in its dialogue while surreal in its situations: the characters speak with idiomatic credibility while the world they inhabit follows its own logic.

How to Watch Erupcja in 4K

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Charli XCX: From Music to Film

Charli XCX (born Charlotte Emma Ackerman, 1992, in Cambridge, England) is one of the most critically acclaimed musicians of her generation. She is known for the albums Sucker (2014), Pop 2 (2017), Charli (2019), Crash (2022), and — most significantly for her cultural moment — Brat (2024), which became one of the most discussed albums of that year and generated significant cultural commentary on its aesthetic and political dimensions.

Her acting work in Erupcja is her most substantial film role to date. She has appeared in other projects but this represents her first extended dramatic collaboration in a serious art-film context. Her involvement in the screenplay — as co-writer — gives her a level of creative authorship unusual for a music star crossing into film.

Lena Góra is a Polish actress whose work includes Polish film and television productions. Her role as Nel — the film's central Polish character — grounds the Warsaw setting with the linguistic and cultural authenticity that the film's bilingual structure requires.

Jeremy O. Harris is an American playwright whose Slave Play had an extended run on Broadway (2019-2020) and became one of the most discussed theatrical works of that period. His involvement in Erupcja — as co-writer and actor — brings theatrical and literary credibility to the project.

Pete Ohs and the Film's Visual Approach

Pete Ohs is an independent American filmmaker known for small-scale, formally adventurous projects that operate outside the conventional studio distribution pipeline. Everything Beautiful Is Far Away (2017) and Jethica (2022) established his reputation for intimate, psychologically concentrated work that uses limited resources creatively.

Erupcja was shot in Poland, on location in Warsaw — an unusual choice for an American-directed, internationally cast independent film. The Warsaw setting is functional rather than touristic: the film uses the city's architecture and street life as background for an intimate character study rather than as spectacle.

The volcano, when it appears, is handled with what reviewers describe as deliberate low-key visual restraint — consistent with Ohs' preference for understatement and the magical realist tradition of treating the impossible as ordinary.

Critical Reception and Festival Context

Erupcja screened in the Centrepiece section at TIFF 2025 — a significant placement indicating the festival's confidence in the film's profile. Centrepiece selections at TIFF are typically films with significant commercial or cultural interest that sit outside the direct competition but warrant prominent programmer attention.

The film subsequently screened at MoMA as part of New Directors/New Films 2026 — a joint programme of MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center that focuses on emerging filmmakers. This selection positions Erupcja within the art-film institutional circuit that is separate from but overlapping with the award-season circuit.

IMDb lists the film with a score of 6.4 — a moderate rating that reflects the film's niche audience: viewers comfortable with short-form, surrealist independent drama rather than mainstream genre filmmaking.

The film holds a notable entry on Rotten Tomatoes and was covered by Uproxx, the Film Society of Lincoln Center (MSP Film programme), and the Film at Lincoln Center system — institutions whose coverage is the primary reference point for American art-cinema audiences.

InfinityTV's 22,000+ live TV channels include film culture and arts programming that has covered both Charli XCX's broader cultural moment in 2024-2026 and the film's festival circuit. Subscribers with access to InfinityTV's international content library will be able to access Erupcja alongside hundreds of other 2025-2026 titles when streaming rights are confirmed.

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Why Is a Volcano Erupting in Warsaw?

Warsaw has no volcanoes. Poland is not in any active seismic or volcanic zone. The eruption in Erupcja is a surrealist, deliberately impossible event — a device in the tradition of magical realism in which an absurd or supernatural occurrence is treated as entirely ordinary within the film's world, while the audience understands it as metaphor. In Erupcja, the volcano externalises the emotional disruption that Nel and Bethany are already experiencing in their romantic lives: something dormant suddenly becomes violently active, changes the landscape, and cannot be undone. Director Pete Ohs and his co-writers — Charli XCX, Lena Góra, Jeremy O. Harris, Will Madden — use the impossible event not to explain but to amplify. The eruption is not the story; it is the story's emotional register made visible.

Frequently asked questions

What is Erupcja about? Erupcja is set in Warsaw, Poland. Nel, a woman who works at a flower shop, has her domestic routine disrupted when her childhood friend Bethany visits with a new boyfriend. As the two women's romantic lives complicate, a volcano unexpectedly erupts in the city. The volcano functions as a surrealist event — Warsaw has no volcanoes — that externalises the emotional disruption the characters are already experiencing. The film is 71 minutes long and is shot in Polish and English.

Who is in the cast of Erupcja? Erupcja stars Charli XCX as Bethany, Lena Góra as Nel, Jeremy O. Harris, and Will Madden. The screenplay was co-written by director Pete Ohs and all four cast members. Charli XCX is one of the most critically acclaimed musicians of her generation, known for the albums Brat (2024), Crash (2022), and Pop 2 (2017).

Where was Erupcja filmed? Erupcja was filmed on location in Warsaw, Poland. The film uses Warsaw's streets and architecture as the setting for its story of two women whose romantic lives are disrupted by a surrealist volcanic eruption. The film is made in Polish and English and runs 71 minutes.

Where can I stream Erupcja online in 4K? Erupcja was released in U.S. cinemas on April 17, 2026, following its TIFF 2025 premiere. InfinityTV will carry it in the on-demand library of 150,000+ Movies & Series when the streaming window opens. Subscribe to watch on InfinityTV and search for Erupcja in the on-demand section.

When did Erupcja premiere and at which festivals did it screen? Erupcja had its world premiere in the Centrepiece section of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 4, 2025. It subsequently screened at MoMA as part of New Directors/New Films 2026, a joint programme of MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. It was released in U.S. cinemas on April 17, 2026.