{"id":935587,"date":"2026-10-21T01:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935587\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:22:12","slug":"the-cycle-of-love-returning-to-theaters-for-special-date-night-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935587\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Cycle Of Love’ Returning To Theaters For Special “Date Night” Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Fresh from earning two nominations for the Critics Choice Documentary Awards<\/a>, The Cycle of Love<\/a> is cycling back into theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe romantic documentary directed by Oscar winner Orlando von Einsiedel<\/a> and executive produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas will play for one-day only on November 1, which the distributor is calling a special \u201cdate night\u201d screening event. It\u2019s booked in locations nationwide from New York to Los Angeles, and even further west to Hawaii. The film, which recounts the extraordinary love story of PK \u2014 an \u201cuntouchable\u201d young Indian artist \u2014 and Lotta, \u201ca Swedish adventurer in search of magic, whose meeting was written in the stars from [PK\u2019s] birth,\u201d becomes available on TVOD starting November 2, on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and YouTube.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Cyle of Love won the Artemis Rising Foundation Award for Social Impact at the Hamptons International Film Festival in New York and audience awards at the Middleburg Film Festival in Virginia and the Indie Meme Film Festival in Austin, TX. At the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, it\u2019s nominated for Best Director, recognizing von Einsiedel, and Best Cinematography, recognizing DoP Franklin Dow.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tChirag Lobo as young PK in \u2018The Cycle Of Love\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Franklin Dow<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn 1977, PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist from a poor, \u2018untouchable\u2019 family, picked up a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle and set off across 6000 miles and nearly a dozen countries,\u201d notes a synopsis. \u201cHis mission: to find Lotta, the woman who had captured his heart on a visit to India.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPK knew their meeting was fate. When he was still a baby, an astrologer left his parents with a prophecy: \u2018You will marry a girl who is not from the village, not even from this country, she will be musical, own a jungle and be born under the sign of the ox.\u2019 Lotta was born in May and she played the recorder and piano. When PK asked her if she owned a jungle, she replied, \u2018not a jungle, but a forest.\u2019 He knew this was his destiny. Charmed by his smile, creativity and gentleness, Lotta accepted his offer to show her around India and, over her two-month visit, they fell hopelessly in love, despite caste, nationality, and everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t(L-R) Actor Chirag Lobo, director Orlando von Einsiedel, and actress Mina Dale attend \u2018The Cycle Of Love\u2019 UK premiere at The Curzon Mayfair on September 17, 2026 in London.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJo Hale\/WireImage<\/p>\n

\n\tVon Einsiedel won his Academy Award for The White Helmets (2016) and earned an Academy Award nomination for Virunga (2014). His additional directing credits include The Lost Children (2024), co-directed by Jorge Duran and Lali Houghton; the documentary series Heart of Invictus (2023), and the short film Lost and Found (2019).<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a recent interview with Deadline, von Einsiedel told us about the origins of The Cycle of Love.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was in Sweden and I was giving a talk at an event and two young people, very smiley young people, came up to me and handed me a book and said, \u2018This is a book about our parents\u2019 story and we know your work a little bit. And if you like this story and are interested, would you consider making a film about it?\u2019\u201d the filmmaker recalled. \u201cWhen somebody approaches you cold and says, \u2018This is a great story,\u2019 it sadly isn\u2019t always a great story. So, I didn\u2019t have the highest hopes in the world, but I read the book a number of weeks later and immediately knew I\u2019d been an idiot for not being more enthusiastic. And the story blew my mind and it\u2019s about magic and destiny and love and adventure and the kindness of strangers. And I immediately got back in touch and said, \u2018Hello, do you remember me?\u2019 And luckily, they did remember me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGrain MediaKalabati Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film includes extensive dramatizations immersing viewers in this almost unimaginable story. Von Einsiedel cast actor Chirag Lobo as young PK, and actress Mina Dale as young Lotta.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI learned very quickly there wasn\u2019t much archive footage\u2026 PK unfortunately didn\u2019t have a documentary crew following him in 1977,\u201d von Einsiedel said. \u201cNormally, that [cuts] a documentary off at its knees. And I found that very scary, but it was kind of freeing and wonderful in a way to try and problem-solve how to overcome this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film becomes a road movie, with the director casting people he met in the course of filming \u2014 non-professional actors \u2014 to take part in it. Von Einsiedel says his approach was inspired by several acclaimed directors.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI suppose I\u2019ve borrowed enormously from amazing filmmakers like Abbas Kiarostami, Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, Jonas Poher Rasmussen and the Ross Brothers, all these brilliant people who blended documentary and scripted,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve tried to stand on their shoulders and try something different.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPK Mahanandia in \u2018The Cycle of Love\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Franklin Dow<\/p>\n

\n\tPK\u2019s story of perseverance \u2014 receiving a sign about his future and then undertaking a journey to make that vision a reality \u2014 has touched audiences around the world.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe don\u2019t all have destiny written for us or given a prophecy as children, but we all have hopes and dreams and ambitions,\u201d von Einsiedel observed. \u201cBut to make those happen, you have to work at them. And I think that\u2019s a really inspiring message at the heart of this film. Here\u2019s a man who had a very difficult life and he decided he was going to change it and took an enormous risk. And we might not be able to cycle 6,000 miles to change our lives, but we can all do something to achieve our dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cThere\u2019s a line PK says as well: \u2018We can choose which story to believe about ourselves.\u2019 I think that\u2019s such a powerful line because PK had been told all his life that he was polluted, he was dirty, he was nothing, and he chose not to believe any of that and achieved extraordinary things because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Cycle of Love is a Grain Media and Kalabati Pictures production, in Association with BD4, Tudip Entertainment and AMPL, Artemis Rising Foundation, Grace Labs, Waldesfriede Films and Purple Pebble Pictures. The film is produced by Harri Grace, Chloe Leland, Emelie Mahanandia von Schedvin, and Karl Mahanandia von Schedvin. <\/p>\n

\n\tExecutive producers are Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Anne Carey, Adriana Banta, Jorge Villon, Abhijeet Chhabra, Dan Silver, Ryan Harrington, Geralyn Dreyfous, Emily Goldner, Chris Silvestri, Mark Roden, Melony and Adam Lewis, Michael Humphries, Regina K. Scully, Lekha Singh, Cristina Ljungberg, Victoria Steventon, The Reilly Family, Danielle Turkov, and Amy Shepherd.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from earning two nominations for the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, The Cycle of Love is cycling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344,502196,502197],"class_list":["post-935587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-orlando-von-einsiedel","tag-the-cycle-of-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}