The Future of British Film: The Breakout Debuts from LFF
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The Future of British Film: The Breakout Debuts from LFF

It’s become no extraordinary occurrence for British feature debuts to make waves at international film festivals (think Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper or Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex, Luna Carmoon’s Hoard or more recently, Harris Dickinson’s Urchin), but there is nowhere better to survey the next round of standout British debuts than the London Film Festival. This year, the best debuts took us from Lagos to Luton, dealing with violent prisons and BDSM-biker gangs, with many offering a fresh approach to cinematic form.

Blue Heron Review
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Blue Heron Review

Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron tackles a familiar question: If I could go back and work out exactly why and how a bad event in my life happened, would it make it hurt less? Would it make moving on easier? Set in Vancouver in 1995, Blue Heron follows Sasha- first as a child (Eylul Guven) and then as a young woman (Amy Zimmer)—as she experiences and then processes the behaviour of her oldest brother Jeremy (Edik Beddoes).