As film festival season kicks into gear, a new slate of blockbusters and art house and independent films are coming our way and we’re excited, to say the least. With the Venice Film Festival arriving at the end of August, the line-up for its programming has now been released and with it, first-look images and trailers for several new films.

One such film is Pedro Almodóvar’s much-anticipated English language feature debut, The Room Next Door, which is set to explore themes of motherhood, friendship and pain. Here’s everything we know so far about the film.

**What is the plot of The Room Next Door?**

The film follows the story of a flawed mother and a spiteful daughter separated by a serious misunderstanding. Between them, another woman, Ingrid (Julianne Moore), the mother’s friend, is the “keeper of their pain and bitterness”. Martha, the mother (Tilda Swinton), is a war reporter and Ingrid is an auto-fictional novelist.

“The film addresses the endless cruelty of war, the very different ways in which the two female authors approach and write about reality, death, friendship and sexual pleasure as the best allies in the fight against horror. And it also evokes the sweet awakening with the chirping of birds, in a house built in the middle of a nature reserve in New England, where the two friends live in an extreme and strangely sweet situation,” reads the official synopsis.

Motherhood, friendship and war: everything you need to know about The Room Next Door