The kitchen-sink drama follows five working class friends — Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor — who came up together in a tower block in Birmingham who are now in their 30s and find themselves on increasingly divergent — and for most of them, increasingly constrained — paths to the future.
The kitchen-sink drama follows five working class friends — Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor — who came up together in a tower block in Birmingham who are now in their 30s and find themselves on increasingly divergent — and for most of them, increasingly constrained — paths to the future.
The People’s Choice award is backed by the Fondation Chantal Akerman, set up in honor of the late French director Chantal Akerman , a Directors’ Fortnight regular. It comes with a €7,500 cash bursary for the director of the winning film. Barnard’s fifth feature is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Kieran Goddard.
Enda Walsh, the writer behindA second Directors’ Fortnight prize, the Coup de Cœur des Auteurs prize from French rights collection society SACD, went tostars Eva Huault as the titular character: a volatile small-time drug dealer with a toxic boyfriend about to get out of prison. Noémie Lvovsky, Inès Gherib, Anaïs Monah, Bettina De Van, Geneviève Krief and Sékouba Doucouré co-star.
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