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UK FEATURES CATALOGUE SECOND EDITION 2019
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 4
CURRENT FEATURES 8
COMING SOON IN 2019/2020
FORTHCOMING FEATURES 48
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL 67
BRITISH COUNCIL & FESTIVALS 68
BRITISH COUNCIL NEW TALENT & SHORTS 70
BRITISH COUNCIL GLOBAL PROJECTS 72
Cover: The Personal History of David Copperfield, Director: Armando Iannucci
INDEX OF FILMS 76
1ST Directorial debuts are indicated with this symbol
All inclusive images remain the copyright of their respective owners and may
not be reproduced without the expressed permission of the rights holders. 3
INTRODUCTION
UK Features Catalogue 2019 Second Edition About Us
This Catalogue includes details of many of the UK feature The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for
productions and official co-productions either currently cultural relations and educational opportunities, working
screening on the global festival circuit or in the final stages of in over 100 countries. Its Film team links UK films and
production. It has been compiled by the British Council’s Film filmmakers with international audiences and creatives,
team, whose programme celebrates and promotes UK film profiling innovation, diversity and excellence, and finding
and filmmakers year-round. opportunities for creative exchange between UK and
international film networks.
You can view a list of UK titles currently In Production, as
well as details of recently completed shorts and features in It provides a preview screening service for selectors from
our UK Films Directory, as well as further directories listing major film festivals, including Toronto, Sundance, Berlin and
both UK filmmakers and international film festivals, at Cannes; works with a worldwide network of international
www.britishcouncil.org/film partners to develop imaginative film projects, and arranges
for filmmakers and expert film industry specialists to
You can also find regularly updated catalogues of represent the UK abroad. It maintains an extensive on-line
Short Films, Animations, Features and Documentaries UK Films Directory; represents the UK within European
at bit.ly/ukfilmcatalogue Film Promotion (EFP); offers Travel Grants to help short
filmmakers attend selected international film festivals; and
offers Lab Travel Grants to support new and emerging
filmmakers to attend international training labs.
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Judy, Director: Rupert Goold 5
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Greed, Director: Michael Winterbottom 7
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CURRENT FEATURES
Calm with Horses, Director: Nick Rowland
The Aeronauts The Australian Dream
Synopsis Synopsis
Set in 1862, the high-flying tale of pilot Amelia Wren, a A portrait of the struggles and triumphs of Australian
wealthy young widow, and James Glaisher, an ambitious footballer Adam Goodes – a hero on and off the field, as both
scientist as they mount a balloon expedition to fly higher a decorated sportsman and an indigenous-rights activist.
than anyone in history. This is a journey to the very edge of Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 -
existence, where the air is thin and the chances of survival TIFF Docs - International premiere
are slim. As their perilous ascent reveals their true selves,
this unlikely pair discover things about each other – and Details
themselves – that help them find their place in the world Year: 2019
they have left behind. Running Time: 106 mins
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Director: Daniel Gordon
Gala Presentations Producer: John Battsek, Nick Batzias, Sarah Thomson,
Virginia Whitwell
Details Executive Producer: Julian Bird, Joel Kennedy, Paul Wiegard
Year: 2019 Editor: Matt Wyllie Screenwriter: Stan Grant
Running Time: 101 mins Director of Photography: Dylan River, Michael Timney
Director: Tom Harper Music: Cornel Wilczek
Producer: Tom Harper, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman
Executive Producer: Richard Hewitt, Jack Thorne
Editor: Mark Eckersley
Screenwriter: Tom Harper, Jack Thorne
Director of Photography: George Steel
Production Designer: David Hindle, Christian Huband
Music: Steven Price
Principal Cast: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel,
Tom Courtenay, Anne Reid, Rebecca Front, Vincent Perez,
Tim McInnery, Phoebe Fox
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
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CURRENT FEATURES 9
Bait Beats
Synopsis Synopsis
Behind the picture postcard idyll of a Cornish fishing village A universal story of friendship, rebellion and the irresistible
alienation, resentment and anger bubble away. The view power of gathered youth. Set to a soundtrack as eclectic and
may be beautiful, but you can’t eat it. Martin Ward, is a cove- electrifying as the scene it gave birth to, BEATS is a story for
fishermen without a boat, infuriated with his brother for our time.
using the family vessel for day-tripping, and with a brooding Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam
resentment for tourists flocking to the village while locals (IFFR) 2019 - Voices - World premiere
are relegated to an estate on the hill. Nearing the end of
the summer season, an argument over a parking space with Details
the incomers who bought his old family home comes to Year: 2019
represent all that is wrong with the world for Martin. Tensions Running Time: 96 mins
rise and when a misguided prank and retaliation escalates Director: Brian Welsh
to tragedy the brothers are forced to unite and face the Producer: Camilla Bray
future together. Shifting light, captured on B&W 16mm film Executive Producer: Steven Soderbergh
and processed by hand, offers a grainy black and white Editor: Robin Hill
polemic; the state of the nation seen through a family lens. Screenwriter: Kieran Hurley, Brian Welsh
Rugged cliffs, stark seascapes, working hands, silent faces, Director of Photography: Benjamin Kracun
the screech of a gull, the smoke from a barbeque, clashing Production Designer: Víctor Molero
classes, tensions building, a casual theft, a threat issued, Music: JD Twitch (Optimo)
a punch thrown, retribution, high tide, low water, laughter Principal Cast: Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser,
at dusk, regret in the morning, beauty, anger, compassion, Gemma McElhinney, Rachel Jackson
hope.
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum - World premiere
Details
Year: 2019
Running Time: 89 mins
Director: Mark Jenkin
Producer: Kate Byers, Linn Waite
Executive Producer: Kate Byers, Linn Waite
Editor: Mark Jenkin
Screenwriter: Mark Jenkin
Director of Photography: Mark Jenkin
Production Designer: Mae Voogd
Sound: Dan Thompson
Music: Thea Gilmore, The Malarkey, Gwenno
Principal Cast: Edward Rowe, Simon Shepherd,
Mary Woodvine, Giles King, Chloe Endean, Georgia Ellery,
Isaac Woodvine, Jowan Jacobs Production Company Sales Agent
Rosetta Productions Altitude Film Sales
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10 CURRENT FEATURESBlackbird Blinded by the Light
Synopsis Synopsis
A family spanning three generations come together over 1987. When music fanatic Javed discovers the illustrious back
a weekend to be with their terminally ill mother before she catalogue of Bruce Springsteen his world is turned upside
takes her own life. Her family willingly supports her decision down; already a creative soul his passion for music and
to help her die with dignity, but her daughters begin to writing is set alight by the songs of the working-class poet,
unravel a secret that could disrupt her wish to die peacefully whose lyrics feel all too familiar to the aspirational teenager.
and on her own terms. Remake of the award-winning 2014 Yearning to escape his rundown hometown and the rules
Danish film Silent Heart. of his traditional Pakistani household, Javed finds himself
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - caught in between two worlds and must discover if he too
Gala Presentations - World premiere is ‘Born to Run…’ Based on the memoir of lauded Guardian
journalist Sarfraz Manzoor, this timely coming of age story
Details proves that the right song has the capacity to transcend
Year: 2019 race, religion and place, tap into our hearts and help us
Running Time: 97 mins discover who we really are.
Director: Roger Michell Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Premieres -
Producer: David Bernardi, Sherryl Clark, Robert Van Norden World premiere
Co-Producer: Alice Dawson
Executive Producer: Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, Details
Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger Year: 2019
Editor: Kristina Hetherington Running Time: 114 mins
Screenwriter: Christian Torpe Director: Gurinder Chadha
Director of Photography: Mike Eley Producer: Gurinder Chadha, Jane Barclay, Jamal Daniel
Production Designer: John Paul Kelly Editor: Justin Krish
Music: Peter Gregson Screenwriter: Sarfraz Mansoor, Gurinder Chadha,
Principal Cast: Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia Paul Mayeda Berges
Wasikowska, Sam Neill, Rainn Wilson, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Director of Photography: Ben Smithard
Lindsay Duncan, Anson Boon Production Designer: Nick Ellis
Principal Cast: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Hayley Atwell,
Sally Phillips, Rob Brydon, Nell Williams
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
US, UK co-production Millennium Media Inc A Bend It Films, Levantine Films, Cornerstone Films
A Busted Shark (US), Eclectic Rashad Qasem Ingenious Media production with WeWork
Pictures (US), Millennium Films 6423 Wilshire Blvd. support from BFI 1 Fore Street
(US) production Los Angeles Bend It Films London
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CURRENT FEATURES 111ST 1ST
Bombay Rose A Bump Along the Way
Synopsis Synopsis
Amidst the struggle of survival in a sprawling Indian When a fun-loving, middle-aged single mum accidentally
metropolis, a red rose brings together three tales of gets pregnant from a one-night-stand, her prim teenage
impossible loves. Love between two flower sellers. Love daughter is scandalized. But mother and daughter slowly
between two women. Love of an entire city for its reverse roles as the pregnancy progresses.
Bollywood stars. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival -
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - Critics’ Week - Discovery - International premiere
World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Details
Contemporary World Cinema Year: 2019
Running Time: 95 mins
Details Director: Shelly Love
Year: 2019 Producer: Louise Gallagher
Running Time: 93 mins Editor: Helen Sheridan
Director: Gitanjali Rao Screenwriter: Tess McGowan
Producer: Rohit Khattar, Anand Mahindra Director of Photography: Mark McCauley
Co-Producer: Serge Lalou, Charlotte Uzu Production Designer: Patrick Creighton
Executive Producer: Kirsty Bell, Tessa Inkelaar, Music: Die Hexen
Phil McKenzie, Deborah Sathe Principal Cast: Bronagh Gallagher, Lola Petticrew,
Editor: Gitanjali Rao Screenwriter: Gitanjali Rao Mary Moulds
Production Designer: Rupali Gatti
Sound: Sound Design: PM Satheesh
Music: Cyli Khare, Yoav Rosenthal
Principal Cast: Anurag Kashyap, Makrand Deshpande,
Track Geetanjali Kulkarni
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
UK, India, France, Qatar co- C International Sales A Bump Films and Gallagher Films
production Camille Cheneval production supported by Northern
Cinestaan Film Company (UK, IN), Mappin House Ireland Screen
Les Films d’Ici (FR) Winsley Street Gallagher Films
London Louise Gallagher
Cinestaan Film Company
W1A 1AE l@gallagherfilms.co.uk
Deborah Sathe, Director of
International Operations camille.cheneval@cintsales.com www.gallagherfilms.co.uk
deborah.sathe@cinestaanfilmcompany.com www.cintsales.com
www.cinestaanfilmcompany.com
12 CURRENT FEATURES1ST
The Burnt Orange Heresy Calm with Horses
Synopsis Synopsis
The art world and the underworld collide in this elegant and In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Arm has become the feared
erotic neo-noir thriller. Set in present day Italy, irresistibly enforcer for the drug dealing Devers family, whilst also trying
charismatic art critic James Figueras hooks up with to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack.
provocative and alluring American Berenice Hollis. He’s a Torn between these two families, Arm is asked to kill for the
classic anti-hero in the making with a charm that masks his first time, and his attempt to do the right thing endangers
ambition, whilst she’s an innocent touring Europe, enjoying everyone he holds dear.
the freedom of being whoever she wishes. The new lovers Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 -
travel to the lavish and opulent Lake Como estate of powerful Discovery - World premiere
art collector, Joseph Cassidy. Their host reveals he is the
patron of Jerome Debney, the reclusive J.D. Salinger of the Details
art world, and he has a simple request: for James to steal a Year: 2019
Debney masterpiece from the artist’s studio, whatever the Running Time: 101 mins
cost. As the couple spends time with the legendary Debney, Director: Nick Rowland
they start to realise that nothing about the artist nor their Producer: Daniel Emmerson
mission is what it seems. But James is a man of deep, lurking Co-Producer: Rory Gilmartin, Kate Glover
ambition and he will do anything, from arson and burglary to Executive Producer: Conor McCaughan, Michael Fassbender,
murder, in order to further his career… Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Sam Lavender, Daniel Battsek,
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - Out of Celine Haddad, Sarah Dillon
Competition & Closing Night Gala - World premiere Editor: Nicolas Chaudeurge
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Screenwriter: Joseph Murtagh (screenplay), Colin Barrett
Gala Presentations (novella) Director of Photography: Piers McGrail
Production Designer: Damien Creagh
Details Principal Cast: Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar
Year: 2019
Running Time: 98 mins
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Producer: David Zander, William Horberg, David Lancaster
Executive Producer: Sienna Aquilini, Aeysha Walsh, Stephanie
Wilcox, Dante Ariola, August Zander, Jon Shiffman, Jonathan
Loughran, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib, Fabrizio Donvito,
Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, Alessandro Mascheroni, Peter
Touche, Vaishali Mistry, Marie-Gabrielle
Editor: Guido Notari
Screenwriter: Scott B. Smith (script), Charles Willeford
(novel) Director of Photography: David Ungaro
Principal Cast: Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger,
Donald Sutherland
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
US, UK co-production HanWay Films (International sales) A DMC Film (UK) in co-production Altitude Film Sales
MJZ (US), Wonderful Films (US), 8 Basing Street with Element Pictures (IE) with 34 Foubert’s Place
Rumble Films (US), Indiana Film London W11 1ET support of Film4 (UK), Irish Film London
Production (IT) +44 (0)20 7290 0750 Board (IE), WRAP Fund W1F 7PX
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CURRENT FEATURES 131ST 1ST
The Capote Tapes Cat in the Wall
Synopsis Synopsis
Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Cat in the Wall tells the true story of how a cat, stuck in
Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton a wall, changes the lives of aspirational migrants, benefit
invigorate this documentary on the author (and socialite) fraudsters and gentrified Brexiteers. Life on a council estate
behind ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ and ‘In Cold Blood’, while in Brexit London – gentrification plans bring astronomic
situating Capote in the 20th-century American literary bill for homeowners and aggravate the community. In the
canon. eye of the storm Irina, a Bulgarian single mother, tries to
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - breakthrough as an architect and refuses to live on benefits
TIFF Docs - World premiere like most of her neighbours. She galvanizes the homeowners
to appeal against bill with the Council but the English assure
Details her that any attempt to fight the system is doomed. Irina’s
Year: 2019 family and people living on benefits clash over the ownership
Running Time: 91 mins of a cat. А different side of British society is revealed to her
Director: Ebs Burnough and she realises she is trapped in the walls of her property
Producer: Ebs Burnough, Lawrence Elman and metaphorically in her mind. She takes a drastic decision
Executive Producer: Nick Fraser, Pierre Lagrange, Lex Lutzus to change her life.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - International
Competition - World premiere
Details
Year: 2019
Running Time: 92 mins
Director: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Producer: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Co-Producer: Christophe Bruncher, Lambros Atteshlis
Editor: Donka Ivanova
Screenwriter: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Director of Photography: Dimitar Kostov
Production Designer: Yuliya Kunova
Music: Andy Cowton
Principal Cast: Irina Atanasova, Angel Genov, Orlin Asenov,
Gilda Waugh, Chinwe Nwokolo, Kadisha Gee Camara,
Jon-Jo Inkpen, John Harty
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A Hatch House Media production Altitude Film Sales Bulgaria, UK, France Coccinelle Film via della Cisterna
in association with Mville Films 34 Foubert’s Place co-production 00153 Rome Italy
Hatch House Media London Activist 38 (BU), Glasshead (UK), +39 3 3881 58862
The Ministry W1F 7PX Ici et Là Productions (FR) fbreccia@coccinellefilm.com
79-81 Borough Road +44 (0)20 7478 7612 rpontarelli@coccinellefilm.com
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14 CURRENT FEATURES1ST
Citizen K County Lines
Synopsis Synopsis
Citizen K is a portrait of Mikhail Khodorkovsky – from A powerful drama about a mother and her fourteen-year-
communist to oligarch, political prisoner to exiled dissident – old son who is groomed into a lethal nationwide drug selling
and his 20-year battle with Putin. enterprise, a ‘County Line’, which exploits vulnerable children
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - Out of and traffics them across Britain.
Competition - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - World
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - premiere
Contemporary World Cinema
Details
Year: 2019
Details
Running Time: 93 mins
Year: 2019
Director: Henry Blake
Running Time: 128 mins
Producer: Victoria Bavister, David Broder
Director: Alex Gibney
Executive Producer: Christopher Granier-Deferre,
Producer: John Battsek, George Chignell, Erin Edeiken,
Simona Hughes, Zoe Bamber, Pia Getty
Alex Gibney, P.J. van Sandwijk
Editor: Paco Sweetman
Executive Producer: John-Paul Bernbach, Michael Lesslie,
Screenwriter: Henry Blake
Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Andrew Ruhemann
Director of Photography: Sverre Sordal
Editor: Michael J. Palmer
Production Designer: Phoebe Darling
Screenwriter: Alex Gibney
Music: James Pickering
Director of Photography: Mark Garrett, Denis Sinyakov
Principal Cast: Conrad Khan, Ashley Madekwe, Harris
Music: Ivor Guest, Robert Logan
Dickinson, Tabitha Milne Price, Marcus Rutherford
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
US, UK co-production Kew Media Group UK, Belgium co-production
Jigsaw Productions (US), 151 Shaftesbury Avenue
Two Birds Entertainment
Passion Pictures (UK), Storyteller London
(UK), Loupe Films (UK), Belga
Productions (UK) WC2H 8AL
Productions (BE)
+44 (0)20 7851 6500
Passion Pictures
rebecca.berry@kewmedia.com Two Birds Entertainment
County House
london@kewmedia.com c/o Victoria Bavister
33-34 Rathbone Place
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London
W1T 1JN Loupe Films
+44 (0)20 7323 9933 David Broder
info@passion-pictures.com david@loupefilms.com
www.passion-pictures.com
CURRENT FEATURES 15Coup 53 The Day Shall Come
Synopsis Synopsis
Documentary telling the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/ An impoverished preacher in Miami is offered cash to save
MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for
Mossadegh. the FBI, who plan to turn him into a criminal by fuelling his
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2019 - World madcap revolutionary dreams.
premiere Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2019 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 -
Documentary Competition - International premiere Details
Year: 2019
Details Running Time: 87 mins
Year: 2019 Director: Chris Morris
Director: Taghi Amirani Producer: Iain Canning, Anne Carey, Emile Sherman
Producer: Taghi Amirani, Paul Zaentz Editor: Billy Sneddon
Co-Producer: Amir Amirani, Ahmad Kiarostami Screenwriter: Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong
Editor: Walter Murch Director of Photography: Marcel Zyskind
Screenwriter: Taghi Amirani, Walter Murch Production Designer: Lucio Seixas
Director of Photography: Taghi Amirani, Simon Fanthorpe, Music: Jonathan Whitehead, Sebastian Rochford,
Chris Morphet, Claudia Raschke, Vicente Franco, Chris Morris
Ben Richards Principal Cast: Marchant Davis, Anna Kendrick, Pej Vahdat,
Music: Robert Miller Danielle Brooks, Calah Lane, Kayvan Novak, James Adomian,
Principal Cast: With contributions from: Taghi Amirani, Walter Danielle Brooks, Denis O’Hare
Murch, Stephen Kinzer, Malcolm Byrne, Ervand Abrahamian,
David Talbot
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Amirani Media UK, US co-production FilmNation Entertainment
+44 (0)7870 643021 A See-Saw Films (UK), Archer 150 West 22nd Street, 9th Floor
hello@amiranimedia.com Gray (US) production with New York
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Film4 (UK) production +1 917 484 8900
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See-Saw Films
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3rd Floor
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London
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16 CURRENT FEATURES1ST
Days of the Bagnold Summer Diego Maradona
Synopsis Synopsis
Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Having never won a major tournament, ailing football giants
Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with SSC Napoli had criminally underachieved. Their fanatical
his father and his father’s new wife in Florida. But when they support was unequalled in both passion and size. None was
cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly more feared. But how they ached for success... On 5th July
face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war 1984, Diego Maradona arrived in Naples for a world-record
of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their fee and for seven years all hell broke loose. The world’s most
suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies celebrated football genius and the most dysfunctional city
– and pursue their personal passions. Adapted from the in Europe were a perfect match for each other. Maradona
graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, Days of the Bagnold was blessed on the field but cursed off it; the charismatic
Summer is a tender, funny coming-of-age story, featuring Argentine quickly led Naples to their first-ever title. It was
original songs by the indie band Belle & Sebastian. the stuff of dreams. But there was a price… Diego could
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - World do as he pleased whilst performing miracles on the pitch,
premiere but when the magic faded he became almost a prisoner of
the city. The third film from the Academy Award and multi
Details BAFTA-winning team behind Senna and Amy, this definitive
Year: 2019 feature documentary was made with Maradona’s full
Running Time: 86 mins support, constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-
Director: Simon Bird seen footage from his personal archive. In a city where the
Producer: Matthew James Wilkinson devil would have needed bodyguards, Maradona became
Co-Producer: Isabelle Georgeaux bigger than God himself. This is the wild and unforgettable
Executive Producer: James Appleton story of God-given talent, glory, despair and betrayal, of
Screenwriter: Lisa Owens (screenplay), Joff Winterhart corruption and ultimately redemption.
(graphic novel) Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Out of
Music: Soundtrack Score: Belle and Sebastian Competition - World premiere
Principal Cast: Monica Dolan, Earl Cave, Rob Brydon,
Alice Lowe, Tamsin Greig Details
Year: 2019
Running Time: 120 mins
Director: Asif Kapadia
Producer: James Gay-Rees, Paul Martin
Executive Producer: George Pank, Julian Bird, Will Clarke
Editor: Chris King
Music: Antonio Pinto
Archival Producer: Lina Caicedo, Fiammetta Luino
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
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support of Creative England, BFI 34 Foubert’s Place the Corner Films production (World sales except US)
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CURRENT FEATURES 17Dirt Music Dirty God
Synopsis Synopsis
Georgie, sometime sailor, diver and nurse, used to have guts. Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid
But somehow she has lost her way. Stranded in a remote attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been
fishing town on the West Australian coast she’s living with reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. On a
Jim, a man she doesn’t love, and his young sons whose dead self-destructive path with her relationships crumbling, Jade
mother she can never replace. But a reckless moment leads must take drastic action to reclaim her life.
to a life-changing encounter with Lu, an enigmatic loner, Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam
one time musician and sometimes poacher, outcast from (IFFR) 2019 - Voices - World premiere
the community. The two are powerfully drawn to each other
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - World
and embark on an inescapable, intense and sexually charged
Cinema Dramatic Competition
affair. Georgie will risk everything for this chance of love, but
Lu is haunted by a tragic accident from his past. For him the
Details
prospect is too painful and he retreats into the wilderness to
Year: 2019
the remotest islands leaving little clue as to his whereabouts.
Running Time: 105 mins
With the unlikely help of Jim who is determined to right the
Director: Sacha Polak
wrongs of his own past, Georgie embarks on a journey to bring
Producer: Marleen Slot, Michael Elliott
Lu back from his past and his grief, ultimately finding herself.
Co-Producer: Dries Phlypo
Based on Tim Winton’s acclaimed novel, a film about people
Executive Producer: Isabel Davis, Clea De Koning,
whose hopes and dreams are lost, and the redemptive power
Frank Klein, Eva Yates
of love.
Editor: Sander Vos
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Screenwriter: Sacha Polak, Susie Farrell
Special Presentations - World premiere Director of Photography: Ruben Impens
Production Designer: Sanne Schat
Details Music: Rutger Reinders
Year: 2019 Principal Cast: Vicky Knight, Katherine Kelly, Eliza Brady-
Running Time: 104 mins Girard, Rebecca Stone, Bluey Robinson, Dana Marienci
Director: Gregor Jordan
Producer: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Angie Fielder,
Polly Staniford
Editor: Pia Di Ciaula Screenwriter: Jack Thorne (script),
Tim Winton (novel)
Director of Photography: Sam Chiplin
Production Designer: Michael Carlin
Principal Cast: Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Hedlund,
David Wenham
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A Dog Called Money Eternal Beauty
Synopsis Synopsis
Award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy has made a When Jane is dumped at the altar she has a breakdown
film that investigates the creative process behind his project and spirals into a chaotic world, where love (both real and
with PJ Harvey. While tracing the sources of songs and imagined) and family relationships collide with both touching
detailing the journey of their birth, he brings to life the people and humorous consequences.
and places at their very heart. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 -- World
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama Dokumente - premiere
World premiere
Details
Details Year: 2019
Year: 2019 Running Time: 93 mins
Running Time: 90 mins Director: Craig Roberts
Director: Seamus Murphy Producer: Adrian Bate
Producer: Isabel Davis, Katie Holly, James Wilson, Executive Producer: Pip Broughton, Mary Burke, Meroë
Seamus Murphy Candy, Catrin Lewis Defis, Emma Duffy, Paul Higgins,
Co-Producer: Evan Horan Adam Partridge
Executive Producer: Thomas Benski, Marisa Clifford, Tim Editor: Stephen Haren
O’Shea, Jim Reeve, Laura Macara, Celine Haddad, Kieron J. Screenwriter: Craig Roberts
Walsh, Brian Message, Sumit Bothra, Sebastian Gollek Director of Photography: Kit Fraser
Editor: Sebastian Gollek Production Designer: Tim Dickel
Screenwriter: Seamus Murphy Music: Michael Price
Director of Photography: Seamus Murphy Principal Cast: Sally Hawkins, David Thewlis, Alice Lowe,
Sound: Seamus Murphy; Sound Design: Brendan Rehill Billie Piper, Penelope Wilton
Music: Polly Jean Harvey
Principal Cast: PJ Harvey
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Ireland, UK co-production Autlook Films A Cliff Edge Pictures, Endeavor Bankside Films
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CURRENT FEATURES 19Fanny Lye Deliver’d First Love (Hatsukoi)
Synopsis Synopsis
On a remote 17th century farm, the arrival of two mysterious Taking place over one night in Tokyo, Leo, a down-on-his-
strangers transforms the life of Puritan huswife Fanny Lye. luck young boxer meets his ‘first love’, Monica, a call girl and
Part period thriller, part mythic ‘western’, Fanny Lye Deliver’d an addict but who is still an innocent. Monica unwittingly
conjures a savage and elemental world of beauty and horror. gets caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, Leo’s
Competition - World premiere nemesis and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Directors’
Details Fortnight - World premiere
Year: 2019 Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 -
Running Time: 110 mins Midnight Madness
Director: Thomas Clay
Producer: Zorana Piggott, Rob Cannan, Philippe Bober, Details
Michel Merkt, Joseph Lang (posth.) Year: 2019
Executive Producer: Thomas Clay, Lizzie Francke, Running Time: 108 mins
Celine Haddad, Richard Holmes, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross Director: Takashi Miike
Screenwriter: Thomas Clay Producer: Muneyuki Kii, Jeremy Thomas, Misako Saka
Director of Photography: Giorgos Arvanitis Editor: Akira Kamiya
Principal Cast: Maxine Peake, Tanya Reynolds, Charles Dance, Screenwriter: Masaru Nakamura
Freddie Fox Director of Photography: Nobuyasu Kita
Sound: Jun Nakamura
Music: Kôji Endô
Principal Cast: Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota
Sometani, Sakurako Konishi, Becky, Jun Murakami
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
UK, Germany co-production Coproduction Office An Oriental Light and Magic (JP), HanWay Films
A PullBack Camera (UK) 24, Rue Lamartine Recorded Picture Company (UK), 8 Basing Street
production in co-production with 75009 Paris Toei Company (JP) production London
Essential Filmproduktion (DE) France Recorded Picture Company W11 1ET
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20 CURRENT FEATURES1ST
For Sama The Gasoline Thieves
(Huachicolero)
Synopsis Synopsis
A feature documentary telling the astonishing story of 26- Living with his mother and working as a farmhand in his
year old female Syrian filmmaker, Waad al-Kateab, who filmed hometown, fourteen-year-old Lalo sees buying a smartphone
her life in rebel-held Aleppo through five years of the Syrian for his high-school crush the only surefire way into her
uprising. She fell in love, got married and had a daughter all heart. When his mother is forced to use his savings in order
while filming the violence raging around her and in particular to pay for medical bills, Lalo decides to approach the local
documenting the challenges the conflict imposed on women huachicoleros for help, who quickly enlist his aid in their
and children. Along with a close group of friends, she stayed business of illegally siphoning gas in order to take advantage
in the city to fight for her dream of a free Syria, a struggle that of the country’s shortage and re-sell on the black market. As
ended in their defeat and exile. The film weaves together her Lalo naively becomes more involved with the huachicoleros’
intimate, emotive footage with her struggle to come to terms work, an uneasy air of violence begins to overtake the world
with the trauma she has witnessed. It’s an outstanding story, around him, while investigators narrow their search for those
by turns beautiful, shocking, surprising and uplifting. Waad is responsible.
a symbol for our times, the epitome of a bold, brave woman Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - International
prepared to risk her life for what she believes, in a year when Narrative Competition - World premiere
women are finally becoming the heroes of their own stories.
Winner: Best New Narrative Director Award - Tribeca Film
Hers is an epic tale of the survival of love and courage amid the
Festival 2019
cruelty of war.
Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Documentary Feature Details
Competition - World premiere Year: 2019
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - International Spectrum Running Time: 93 mins
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Special Screening Director: Edgar Nito
Producer: Victor Leycegui, Annick Mahnert, Joshua Sobel
Details Executive Producer: Bob Portal, Inderpal Singh, Sonia Lowe
Year: 2019 Editor: Sam Baixauli
Running Time: 95 mins Screenwriter: Alfredo Mendoza, Edgar Nito
Director: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts Director of Photography: Juan Pablo Ramírez
Producer: Waad al-Kateab Music: Carlo Ayhllón
Executive Producer: Nevine Mabro, George Waldrum, Principal Cast: Eduardo Banda, Pedro Joaquin,
Siobhan Sinnerton, Ben de Pear, Raney Aronson-Rath Regina Reynoso, Fernando Becerril, Pascacio López,
Editor: Chloe Lambourne, Simon McMahon Leonardo Alonso
Director of Photography: Waad al-Kateab
Music: Nainita Desai
Senior Producer: Dan Edge
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CURRENT FEATURES 211ST
Good Posture Greed
Synopsis Synopsis
Set in current day Brooklyn, the story of Lilian, a lazy but A satricial story of a retail billionaire, set in the glamorous
charming and beautiful young woman who, having broken and celebrity-filled world of luxury fashion, which is centered
up with her boyfriend, has been placed into the care of family around the build up to a spectacular 60th birthday party in
friend and famed reclusive author, Julia Price. To impress an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
her ex-boyfriend, and the other cynics around her, Lilian Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 -
suddenly decides to make a documentary on Julia – albeit an Special Presentations - World premiere
unauthorized one – with surprisingly amusing results.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Spotlight Details
Narrative - World premiere Year: 2019
Running Time: 100 mins
Details Director: Michael Winterbottom
Year: 2019 Producer: Melissa Parmenter, Damian Jones
Running Time: 91 mins Editor: Liam Hendrix Heath
Director: Dolly Wells Screenwriter: Sean Gray, Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Jamie Adams, Maggie Monteith Production Designer: Denis Schnegg
Co-Producer: Ken Farrington Principal Cast: Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, David Mitchell,
Editor: Adelina Bichis Sophie Cookson, Shirley Henderson, Asa Butterfield,
Screenwriter: Dolly Wells Sarah Solemani, Shanina Shaik, Dinita Gohil, Asim Chaudhry,
Director of Photography: Ryan Eddleston Pearl Mackie, Jonny Sweet, Stephen Fry
Production Designer: Charlotte Abbott
Sound: Simon Gerschon
Principal Cast: Emily Mortimer, Grace Van Patten,
Condola Rashad, Nat Wolff
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A Dignity Film Finance and Talland AMP International A Revolution Films (UK) Sony Pictures Entertainment
Films production Timo Suomi production with support of Film4 10202 W. Washington Blvd.
Talland Films Studio 01zero-one (UK), Sony Pictures International Culver City
c/o Dignity Film Finance Hopkins Street Productions (US) CA 90232 USA
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22 CURRENT FEATURES1ST
Here for Life Hope Gap
Synopsis Synopsis
An uncommon story told on common ground by ten Grace and Edward have been married 33 years. When their
Londoners. All have lives shaped by loss and love, trauma son Jamie comes home to visit them in the fading seaside
and bravery, struggle and resistance. They grapple with a town where he grew up, Edward tells him that he plans to
system stacked against them. They dance, steal, and eat leave Grace, the next day. Hope Gap tracks the unravelling of
together; agree and disagree, celebrate their differences and three lives, through stages of shock, disbelief and anger, to a
share their talents. The lines between one person’s story and resolution, of sorts. It’s tender, it’s funny and above all, true.
another’s performance are blurred and the borders between There are no easy answers, no simple paths to redemption,
reality and fiction are porous. Eventually coming together but in the end, it is a story of survival. A story of hope.
on a makeshift stage, Here For Life marks the culmination Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 -
of a long collaboration between filmmaker Andrea Luka Special Presentations - World premiere
Zimmerman and theatre-maker Adrian Jackson, a group of
Londoners, and a dog. Details
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Filmmakers of Year: 2019
the Present Competition - World premiere Running Time: 100 mins
Director: William Nicholson
Details Producer: David M. Thompson
Year: 2019 Co-Producer: Joanie Blaikie
Running Time: 90 mins Executive Producer: Arno Hazebroek, Hugo Heppell,
Director: Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson Gavin Poolman, Nicolas D. Sampson
Producer: The Artangel Trust Editor: Pia Di Ciaula
Executive Producer: James Lingwood, Michael Morris, Screenwriter: William Nicholson
Cressida Day Director of Photography: Anna Valdez-Hanks
Editor: Grant Gee Production Designer: Simon Rogers
Director of Photography: Taina Galis, Andrea Luka Principal Cast: Bill Nighy, Annette Bening, Josh O’Connor
Zimmerman Production Designer: Fred Meller
Sound: Marie Tueje
Music: Richard Honeyghan aka MILO
Principal Cast: Jo Galbraith, Jake Goode, Richard Honeyghan,
Kamby Kamara, Errol McGlashan, Patrick Onione, Ben
Smithies, Floria Twyman, Jono Whitty, Sasha Winslow
Production Note: Devised by the performers, Andrea Luka
Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson with Therese Henningsen
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CURRENT FEATURES 231ST
Horrible Histories: The Movie How to Build A Girl
- Rotten Romans
Synopsis Synopsis
Atti is a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. Johanna Morrigan is 16, smart, opinionated, brash, over-
When one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero, weight – not exactly the high school prom queen. She is
Atti is forced to join the army and is sent to miserable, cold, also a virgin whose hormones are rioting like a zoo on fire.
wet Britain where the natives are revolting - quite literally. Although she loves her dysfunctional family, Johanna is
Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, desperate to get out and make a name for herself. And so she
a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior. does, as Dolly Wilde, a bad-ass music critic at a hip magazine.
When Orla’s grandmother, Brenda, is then kidnapped by In person, she rubs shoulders (and sometimes more...) with
an enemy tribe, Atti seizes on the opportunity to save his rock stars, while on paper, she tears them apart. As she
own skin by using his Roman know-how to help Orla save slaughters her way to greater and greater success, the lines
her. Meanwhile a furious Nero is determined to crush the between Johanna Morrigan and Dolly Wilde begin to haze.
rebellion, led by Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni. After narrowly Can she be an ‘enfant terrible’ and hold on to her family, her
avoiding a very sticky end in a bog, Atti rejoins his Roman heroes and her heart? Johanna definitely figured out how to
troops and discovers they are preparing for an historic build a girl, but has she figured out which girl to build?
showdown with the Celts at the Battle of Watling Street. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 -
Atti’s brains could save the day but they could also spell Special Presentations - World premiere
disaster for Orla as the two new friends find themselves lined
up on opposite sides of the battlefield. Details
Year: 2019
Details Running Time: 102 mins
Year: 2019 Director: Coky Giedroyc
Running Time: 86 mins Producer: Alison Owen, Debra Hayward
Director: Dominic Brigstocke Executive Producer: Daniel Battsek, Ollie Madden, Sue Bruce-
Producer: Caroline Norris, Will Clarke Smith, Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Zygi Kamasa, Emma
Co-Producer: Giles Pilbrow Berkofsky, Caitlin Moran
Executive Producer: Richard Bradley, Andy Mayson, Giles Screenwriter: Caitlin Moran
Pilbrow, Bradley Quirk, Mike Runagall, Iole Lucchese, Rose Principal Cast: Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine,
Garnett, Geraldine Atlee, Cheryl Taylor, Melissa Hardinge, Sarah Solemani, Chris O’Dowd, Emma Thompson
Lucy Beckett, Simon Williams, Vaishali Mistry, Claudia
Bluemhuber, Jesus Munoz
Editor: Nigel William
Screenwriter: Jessica Swale, Giles Pilbrow, Caroline Norris
Director of Photography: John Sorapure
Production Designer: Heathr Gibson
Principal Cast: Sebastian Croft, Craig Roberts, Kim Cattrall,
Nick Frost, Kate Nash, Derek Jacobi, Warwick Davis, Kate
Nash, Rupert Graves, Emilia Jones
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24 CURRENT FEATURESI Am (Not) a Monster Judy
Synopsis Synopsis
“To act is to begin something new” said Hannah Arendt, Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in
one of the greatest thinkers of all time. Arendt, who passed Swinging London to perform in a sell-out run at The Talk of
away in 1975, coined the concept of the ‘banality of evil’. This the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in
documentary attempts to explore the thinking processes The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic
and mechanisms of activism and risky thoughts, unravelling intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show,
some of the reasons why Trump, Le Pen and others have battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces
captured people’s imaginations by reviving past ideologies. with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine
Your guide in this adventurous journey is the alternative through. Even her dreams of romance seem undimmed as
educator Nelly Ben Hayoun, who armed with puppets and she embarks on a courtship with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-
dressed as Hannah Arendt, teases the greatest thinkers of be fifth husband. And yet Judy is fragile. After working for
our age whilst challenging them to an impossible pursuit; the 45 of her 47 years, she is exhausted; haunted by memories
search of the origins of knowledge. Featuring contributions of a childhood lost to Hollywood; gripped by a desire to
from political activist Noam Chomsky, Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda be back home with her kids. Will she have the strength to
Tolokonnikova, Hannah Arendt’s students: Arjun Appadurai go on? Featuring some of her best-known songs, including
and Leon Botstein, nonsense-artist Novbumichi Tosa of the timeless classic ‘Over the Rainbow’, and celebrating the
Maywa Denki, robot maker Hiroshi Ishiguro, Japanese Living voice, the capacity for love and the sheer pizzazz of “the
National Treasures: Bunraku puppeteer – Kanjuro Kiritake II, world’s greatest entertainer”.
Noh Theatre master – Hisa Uzawa, Lord Mayor of Sheffield Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 -
Magid Magid, cyborg artist Neil Harbisson and more. Special Presentations - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 -
Documentary Competition - World premiere Details
Year: 2019
Details Running Time: 118 mins
Year: 2019 Director: Rupert Goold
Running Time: 98 mins Producer: David Livingstone
Director: Nelly Ben Hayoun Executive Producer: Cameron McCracken, Rose Garnett,
Producer: Nelly Ben Hayoun, Monika Baran, Chloe McClellan Andrea Scarso, Laurence Myers, Lee Dean, Aaron Levene,
Executive Producer: Nelly Ben Hayoun, Christopher Hird Charles Diamond, Ellis Goodman, Hilary Williams
Editor: David Potter Editor: Melanie Oliver
Director of Photography: Fiona Braillon Screenwriter: Tom Edge
Principal Cast: Noam Chomsky, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Director of Photography: Ole Bratt Birkeland
Arjun Appadurai, Leon Botstein, Novbumichi Tosa, Hiroshi Production Designer: Kave Quinn
Ishiguro, Kanjuro Kiritake II, Hisa Uzawa, Magid Magid, Neil Principal Cast: Renee Zellweger, Jessie Buckley,
Harbisson, Efrem Amare, Adrienn Almásy, Roger Berkowitz, Finn Wittrock, Michael Gambon
Metasebia Endalamaw, Nelly Ben Hayoun, Bre
Assistant Producer: Marie Otsuka
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CURRENT FEATURES 251ST
Krabi, 2562 Last Breath
Synopsis Synopsis
In the town of Krabi, a popular tourist destination in A commercial diver is stranded on the seabed with only five
southern Thailand, the pre-historic, the recent past and the minutes of oxygen supply, but with no chance of rescue for
contemporary capitalist world awkwardly collide. The town’s more than 30 minutes. With access to amazing archive, this
local folklore and histories are promoted as attractions to is the true story of one man’s impossible fight for survival. It
foreigners, while the town’s traditional labour force is muted is Gravity meets Touching The Void – 100 metres underwater.
and hidden from the tourists’ eyes. A nameless character, Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - World Showcase -
whose identity continually changes, takes us around town International premiere
to explore various sites that capture Krabi in its current
state. These sites uniquely illustrate how Krabi’s folklore is Details
propagated and commodified to fill the need of tourism Year: 2019
industry. A docu-fiction work from Ben Rivers and Anocha Running Time: 86 mins
Suwichakornpong developed from ideas explored in their Director: Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa
2018 Thailand Biennale installation piece ‘The Ambassadors’. Producer: Al Morrow, Angus Lamont, Stewart Le Marechal,
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Moving Ahead Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa, Dylan Williams
- World premiere Executive Producer: Jonny Persey, Vesna Cudic, Leslie Finlay,
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Tony Nellany
Wavelengths Editor: Sam Rogers
Screenwriter: Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa
Details Director of Photography: Alex Parkinson
Year: 2019 Production Designer: Moley Campbell
Running Time: 94 mins
Director: Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong
Producer: Maenum Chagasik, Tulapop Saenjaroen
Director of Photography: Ming Kai Leung
Sound-Artist: Ernst Karel
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Ben Rivers, Anocha Rediance Met Film Production Met Film Sales
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26 CURRENT FEATURESThe Last Tree Little Joe
Synopsis Synopsis
Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after a happy Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at
childhood in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner London to a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has
live with his mum. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and engineered a very special crimson flower, remarkable not
values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept at
out which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it the ideal temperature, fed properly and spoken to regularly,
means to be a young black man in London. Shola Amoo’s this plant makes its owner happy. Against company policy,
second feature is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age Alice takes one home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe. They
drama, which explores universal themes of identity and christen it ‘Little Joe’ but as it grows, so too does Alice’s
belonging. suspicion that her new creations may not be as harmless as
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - World their nickname suggests.
Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Competition -
World premiere
Details
Year: 2019 Details
Running Time: 100 mins Year: 2019
Director: Shola Amoo Running Time: 105 mins
Producer: Lee Thomas, Myf Hopkins Director: Jessica Hausner
Editor: Mdhamiri Á Nkemi Producer: Bruno Wagner, Martin Gschlacht, Jessica Hausner,
Screenwriter: Shola Amoo Bertrand Faivre, Gerardine O’Flynn
Director of Photography: Stil Williams Editor: Karina Ressler
Production Designer: Antonia Lowe Screenwriter: Jessica Hausner, Géraldine Bajard
Sound: Alex Ashcroft Director of Photography: Martin Gschlacht
Music: Segun Akinola Sound: Sound Engineer: Malcolm Cromie; Sound Design: Erik
Principal Cast: Sam Adewunmi, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Mischijev, Matz Müller
Tai Golding, Denise Black, Nicholas Pinnock Music: Katharina Wöppermann
Principal Cast: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox,
Kit Connor, David Wilmot, Phénix Brossard, Sebastian Hülk,
Lindsay Duncan
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
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