United Kingdom
Nominated for European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024
1984, London: 7-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother. An older stranger, Michael, then enters their home, opening the door to past trauma, magic and madness …
Written & directed by: Luna Carmoon
Produced by: Loran Dunn, Helen Simmons, Andrew Starke
Cinematography: Nanu Segal
Editing: Rachel Durance
Production Design: Bobbie Cousins
Costume Design: Nat Turner
Make-Up & Hair: Billie McKenzie
Original Score: Jim Williams
Sound: Steve Single
Cast: Saura Lightfoot Leon (Maria), Hayley Squires (Mother), Joseph Quinn (Michael), Lily-Beau Leach (Young Maria), Deba Hekmat (Maria's Friend), Samantha Spiro (Maria's foster mother)
Production:
Erebus Pictures
www.erebuspictures.co.uk
World Sales:
Alpha Violet
www.alphaviolet.com
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SANTOSH
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ANUL NOU CARE N-A FOST
Romania, SerbiaNominated for European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024
It is the 20th of December, 1989, and Ceaușescu’s regime is on its last legs. The army violently suppresses an uprising in Timișoara, but any news that reaches Bucharest is scant and sanitised. Six peop...
