EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off its premiere at SXSW, Joe Swanberg ‘s The Sun Never Sets has landed U.S. theatrical distribution with Independent Film Company and Sapan Studio .

The romantic drama, starring Dakota Fanning ( Ripley ), Jake Johnson ( Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed ), and Cory Michael Smith ( May December ), will be released later this year.

Marking Swanberg’s 10th overall collaboration with Independent Film Company, and his first film in nearly a decade, The Sun Never Sets follows Wendy (Fanning), an Alaskan who finds her life upended when her boyfriend Jack (Johnson) —older, divorced, and with children — asks for space to reassess their relationship.…