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Jed Hart’s “Restless” plunges into a primal fear: the invasion of one’s personal sanctuary by relentless, inescapable noise. The film introduces us to Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal), a geriatric nurse whose life, marked by the recent departure of her son to university and the quietude of her terraced house, possesses a fragile order.

She inhabits a world of gentle routines—classical music, solitary baking, the comforting glow of televised billiards. This carefully constructed peace, however, is precariously balanced. The arrival of new neighbors in the adjoining house, formerly her parents’, signals an imminent disruption.

“Restless” establishes itself as a domestic drama teetering on the edge of a psychological thriller, a study in how quickly the mundane can curdle into the menacing when the basic right to quiet is violated. The initial framing effectively sets a tone of unease, hinting at the profound disturbance about to unfold in Nicky’s small,...

We’ve all had our fair share of experiences with rotten neighbors. Whether they’re too nosy or too loud, having a bad neighbor can be hell on Earth. Writer and director Jed Hart taps into that hellish experience with his feature film debut, Restless. It’s the story of one woman desperate for peace from the new tenants next door…

In the film, “Nicky is an empty nester whose quiet life is turned upside down when hard-partying—and potentially dangerous—new neighbors move in next door.”

In our exclusive clip, Nicky steps into something gross and uses it as an opportunity to make her new neighbors a delicious treat…

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Lyndsey Marshal (The Hours), Aston McAuley (Rebus), Barry Ward (Extra Ordinary), Kate Robbins (Unforgotten), Denzel Baidoo (Suspicion), and Ciara Ford (Fool Me Once) star in the new thriller.

Restless had its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca...

Written and Directed by Jed Hart Starring Lyndsey Marshal, Aston McAuley, Barry Ward, Kate Robbins, Denzel Baidoo, and Ciara Ford Produced by Benedict Turnbull, Iain Simpson, Jens Nielsen, Sophie Ede, and Harri Kamalanathan Restless had its world premiere at Tribeca Festival 2024 and was nominated for the Raindance Maverick Award at the 2024 British Independent …

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Stars: Lyndsey Marshal, Aston McAuley, Barry Ward | Written and Directed by Jed Hart

Writer/director Jed Hart makes an impressive debut with British horror Restless, about the extremely relatable terror of having nightmare neighbours. If you’ve ever sat in your home, gritting your teeth while loud music pounds in from next door and fantasising about exacting violent revenge, this is the movie for you.

Lyndsey Marshal plays Nicky, a care home nurse who has recently lost her parents, who lived in the house next door on her run-down estate. Most evenings, Nicky’s life consists of nothing more exacting than a spot of yoga, some classical music and cuddling up with the cat on the sofa to watch the snooker, but that tranquillity is rudely shattered when tracksuit-wearing thirty-something Deano (Aston McAuley) moves into her parents’ place next door and spends every night having loud parties with a thumping music system blaring away.

Warner Bros’ A Minecraft Movie leads new titles in UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend as the video game adaptation opens in 675 locations.

This is slightly fewer screens than Universal’s fellow videogame adaptationThe Super Mario Bros which launched in 721 cinemas in 2023. That scored £8.7m in its opening weekend and went on to gross a mega £55m.

A Minecraft Movie is based on the multibillion-dollar sandbox game Minecraft in which players are free to build, create and form communities. Films based on video games have proved successful in the territory – all three Sonic The Hedgehog titles opened above £4m while...

Writer and director Jed Hart’s debut psycho-thriller is very nearly a decent film but is let down by a script that goes completely awry

First-time feature director Jed Hart starts with a great premise for a low-budget psychological thriller about a very real subject, and he gets good performances from his three actors. Hart’s direction is strong, but it’s better than his script; for me the movie, having established its realist credentials, is let down by a completely unreal and silly ending.

Nicky, played by Lyndsey Marshal, is a hard-working agency nurse who is all alone, a single mum to a son away at uni. She lives a lonely but reasonably content life, listening to classical music, doing yoga and vaguely dating a clueless but nice man called Kevin, played by Barry Ward. But all this is utterly destroyed when a lairy and aggressive guy moves into...

"They go all night, every night..."...

Written and Directed by Jed Hart Starring Lysey Marshal, Aston McAuley, Barry Ward, Kate Robbins, Denzel Baidoo, and Ciara Ford Produced by Benedict Turnbull, Iain Simpson, Jens Nielsen, Sophie Ede, and Harri Kamalanathan Synopsis Restless is the story of an empty nester whose quiet life is turned upside down when hard-partying—and potentially dangerous—new neighbors move …

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Spilt Milk, the directorial debut of Ireland’s Brian Durnin, won the audience award at the Glasgow Film Festival, which marked the final edition under the leadership of Allison Gardner.

The feature had its world premiere last year at Tallinn, is set in inner-city Dublin in 1984, in a public housing estate where one family fights for survival amid a heroin epidemic that has ravaged the city, through the eyes of an 11-year-old wannabe detective.

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The audience award is the only prize given to a title in the programme and is awarded to a first or second-time director.

Nothing quite prepares you for the anxiety inducing, gripping portrayal of a persons descent into madness than what we see unfold in Restless.

It is easily one of the highlights of the Glasgow Film Festival where it gets its European premiere and is one of the 10 nominated films for this year’s Audience Award.

Once it gets going it is pretty much relentless and at the helm is writer and director Jed Hart. He is clearly more than adept at bringing to life how an assuming, quiet, social care worker can be driven to the edge and this is where we meet Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal).

A story that seems fairly ordinary of an empty-nester enduring a hellish new neighbour Dean (Aston McAuley) who blast music each night quickly becomes much more. McAuley does so well in playing the agitator who knows the right buttons to push and does so with great relish.

To those who haven’t experienced it, nuisance noise can sound like a trivial thing, something that only those with comfortable lives and far too much time on their hands would make a fuss about. In fact, it’s a problem which can be overwhelming, with seriously detrimental effects not just on sleep but on mental health and even cardiovascular health. For thousands of people every year, it’s not just a case of being annoyed by the occasional party, but of having to endure something that starts every day and carries on into the small hours, making it hard to think straight, intruding into the home so that there’s nowhere one can go to feel safe and relax. It can create the kind of trauma that stays with people for years.

If you have experienced this, you’ll find Jed Hart’s thriller a difficult watch. He doesn’t turn up the volume,...

Metis Films has debuted the first trailer for the thriller ‘Restless,’ an edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores a topic we’ve all been subjected to in our lives: nasty neighbours. The quiet life of an empty nester is turned upside down in the blink of an eye when hard-partying – and potentially dangerous – new neighbours move in next door.

Mild-mannered care home worker Nicky works long hours, and between shifts lives an isolated life listening to classical music and watching snooker. When Dean moves in next door, he shatters her routines with late-night parties and music booming through the thin connecting wall. Nicky decides her only option is to confront him – but it quickly becomes clear that violence is a very real possibility.

With no help from the authorities or her scared neighbours, Nicky discovers a new side to herself. Desperate for sleep, Nicky begins to take dangerous and increasingly erratic actions...

Jed Hart’s UK thriller Restless, has been picked up for UK-Ireland release by Metis Films and Thunderbird Releasing fromAMP.

Metis and Thunderbird are equal partners on the release and are running the campaign together.

Restless world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2024 and is set to receive its European premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival in March.

The film is Hart’s feature debut and is the story of awoman who finds her sanity pushed to the edge after a disruptive group of young men move in next door.

Lyndsey Marshal, Aston McAuley, Barry Ward, Kate Robbins, Denzel Baidoo,...

The Roundhouse in London played host this evening to the 2024 BIFAs – The British Independent Film Awards. Kneecap went into the awards ceremony leading the 2024 nominations with 14, Love Lies Bleeding had 12, The Outrun received 9 nominations, 7 nominations each for Bird, on becoming a guinea fowl and unicorns, 6 for Hoard and Civil War. The winners of tonight’s awards are below.

Celebrating remarkable films and outstanding talent from the British film industry and beyond, this year’s list highlights the UK’s brightest new talent alongside BIFA heroes such as Andrea Arnold, Rose Glass, Rungano Nyoni, Saoirse Ronan, Jack O’Connell, Barry Keoghan and Hayley Squires.

Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.

The 2024 BIFA Winners Best British Independent Film

“Kneecap” — Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling — Winner

“Love Lies Bleeding” — Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman

“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” — Rungano Nyoni, Tim Cole,...

The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas)winners are being unveiled from a ceremony at London’s Roundhouse.

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Sophie Okonedo is receiving theRichard Harris award. The actor is best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2004’sHotel Rwanda while her other film credits includeThe Secret Lie Of Bees,Christopher Robin,Wild Rose,Death On The Nile andCatherine Called Birdy.

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The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas)winners will be unveiled today (December 8)from a ceremony at London’s Roundhouse, commencing at 20:00 GMT.

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Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language comedyKneecap leads the nominations with six, including director, screenplay and best British independent film for Peppiatt - the latter alongside producers Trevor Birney and Jack Tarling - and joint lead performance for its stars Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh,...

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Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language comedyKneecapleads the nominations with six, including director, screenplay and best British independent film for Peppiatt - the latter alongside producers Trevor Birney and Jack Tarling - and joint lead performance for its stars Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh.

Rose Glass’Love Lies Bleeding andNora Fingscheidt’sThe Outrunare on four nominations each. Glass’ second feature stars...

The British Independent Film Awards this year honor two Sundance breakout films, with both “Kneecap” and “Love Lies Bleeding” atop the 2024 nominations list.

Rich Peppiatt’s “Kneecap” (repping Ireland for the 2024 Best International Feature Oscar) leads this year’s nominees with 14 nods, including Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best British Independent Film. “Kneecap” is based on the eponymous rap group, which star here alongside Michael Fassbender in a fictionalized band origin story.

Following “Kneecap” with 12 nominations is Rose Glass’s “Love Lies Bleeding.” Co-leads Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian are nominated for Best Joint Lead Performance, and the film has also been recognized in the Best British Independent Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay categories.

Additional features that received multiple nominations include “The Outrun,” “Bird,” and “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.”

In 2023, “All of Us Strangers” swept the top categories with awards, in addition to “Rye Lane” and future...

This morning, the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) announced their list of nominations for 2024.

‘Kneecap’ leads 2024 nominations with 14, ‘Love Lies Bleeding has 12, ‘The Outrun receives 9 nominations, 7 nominations each for ‘Bird,’ on becoming a guinea fowl and unicorns, 6 for ‘Hoard’ and ‘Civil War.’

Celebrating remarkable films and outstanding talent from the British film industry and beyond, this year’s list highlights the UK’s brightest new talent alongside BIFA heroes such as Andrea Arnold, Rose Glass, Rungano Nyoni, Saoirse Ronan, Jack O’Connell, Barry Keoghan and Hayley Squires.

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The nominations are;

The Richard Harris Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Actor to British Film

Tba – This year’s award recipient will be announced in the coming weeks.

Best British Independent Film

Kneecap Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling

Love Lies Bleeding Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni,...

This year’s BIFA nominations have been unveiled and it’s a delightfully diverse group of great films. More on those below.

There’s less than two months of 2024 left, which means that the awards season is also upon us. It’s time to celebrate this year’s excellent films with fancy statuettes, and first in line is the British Independent Film Awards, aka BIFAs. Nominations were announced today (5th November).

Rich Peppiatt’s joyously anarchic Kneecap leads the pack with a whopping 14 nominations to its name. Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding follows with 12 nominations and Nora Fingscheidt also triumphed with nine.

Women are particularly well represented this year. Out of the five Best British Independent Film nominees, four are directed by women. It’s the same for the Best Director category, where Andrea Arnold, Nora Fingscheidt, Rose Glass and Rungano Nyoni are nominated along with Rich Peppiatt.

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The subversive Irish flick Kneecap leads this year’s British Independent Film Award nominations with 14 nods, including Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Directed by Rich Peppiatt, the film’s impressive noms haul also includes nods for Best Debut Screenwriter, Best British Independent Film, and eight craft categories, including Best Casting and Best Cinematography.

Kneecap debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has been picked to represent Ireland in the International Feature Film category of the 97th annual Academy Awards.

Trailing Kneecap is Rose Glass’ punk rock flick Love Lies Bleeding, which landed 12 nominations. The film’s noms include Best British Independent Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. The film’s two leads, Katy O’Brian and Kristen Stewart, also landed nods for Best Joint Lead Performance.

Elsewhere, Saoirse Ronan’s indie flick The Outrun landed nine noms, and Andrea Arnold’s fifth feature Bird picked up seven nods.

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London’s Raindance Film Festival has unveiled its 13-title longlist for the BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) Raindance Maverick Award, recognizing independent films made with budgets under £1 million ($1.3 million).

The lineup includes “Grand Theft Hamlet,” shot entirely within “Grand Theft Auto,” following two unemployed actors staging Shakespeare in the game’s virtual world, and “Strike: An Uncivil War,” which won Sheffield DocFest’s best documentary audience award for its examination of the 1984/85 miners’ strike.

Raindance founder Elliot Grove said: “The Raindance Maverick Award longlist captures the essence of independent cinema at its purest, rebellious and unapologetic best.”

Full longlist:

“The Ceremony”

“The Flight of Bryan”

“Grand Theft Hamlet”

“King Baby”

“Reawakening”

“Restless”

“Satu – Year of the Rabbit” (Joshua Trigg)

“Silent Men” (Duncan Cowles)

“The Stimming Pool”

“Strike: An Uncivil War”

“Tops”

“Treading Water”

“Witches”

The nominations will be announced Nov. 5, with winners revealed at the BIFA ceremony on Dec.

The British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) longlist for the Raindance Maverick award includes documentaries Witches by Elizabeth Sankey and Strike: An Uncivil War by Daniel Gordon.

The 13-strong longlist also includes Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s non-fiction title Grand Theft Hamlet, about a staging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside the Grand Theft Auto videogame.

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Witches examines the relationship between cinematic portrayals of witches and postpartum depression, utilising archival film footage alongside personal testimony. Having been the sole non-fiction title in the UK’s Great 8 showcase at Cannes this year, the film premiered at Tribeca in June,...

Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, about out-of-work theater actors who try to stage a production of Hamlet within the video game Grand Theft Auto during the Covid lockdown, and Witches, Elizabeth Sankey’s doc that posits a connection between historical witchery and post-partum psychological suffering, are among 13 feature films on the longlist for this year’s Raindance Maverick Award at the British Independent Film Awards, or BIFAs.

Also on the longlist are the likes of Strike: An Uncivil War, the best documentary audience award winner at this year’s Sheffield DocFest that uses personal testimony, formerly hidden government documents, and unseen archive footage to tell the story of the Battle of Orgreave during the British miners’ strike of 1984/85; Treading Water, which tells the story of a man who is newly released from prison and struggling with addiction and mental health issues; and King Baby, “a...

Subversive Irish breakout pic Kneecap and Sasha Nathwani’s gentle yet ambitious debut Last Swim are among the titles that have nabbed mentions on the new talent longlists at this year’s British Independent Film Awards.

Both Kneecap and Last Swim pop up on the Douglas Hickox Best Debut Director Award longlist. Other nominees include Hoard, directed by Luna Carmoon, and Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight, which debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

All four films also feature on the best screenplay longlist alongside Christopher Andrews’s Bring Them Down starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. Other pics on the screenplay longlist include The Ceremony by Jack King and Jed Hart’s Restless.

Overall, the longlists include 31 British features, with 20 fiction and 11 documentary features across four debut filmmaking categories. Within that, there are 13 first-time fiction feature directors, 16 first-time feature documentary directors, 11 first-time writers, and 19 breakthrough producers.

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Rich Peppiatt’s “Kneecap” and Luna Carmoon’s “Hoard” are among the titles in the British Independent Film Awards’ (BIFA) 2024 filmmaker new talent longlists, unveiled Friday. The selections spotlight 31 British features across four debut filmmaking categories, encompassing both fiction and documentary works.

Peppiatt and Carmoon join a group of first-time directors vying for the Douglas Hickox Award, including Amrou Al-Kadhi for “Layla,” Christopher Andrews for “Bring Them Down,” and Daina O Pusić for “Tuesday.” Other contenders in this category are Lucy Cohen with “Edge of Summer,” James Krishna Floyd for “Unicorns,” Stuart Gatt’s “Catching Dust,” Karan Kandhari’s “Sister Midnight,” Jack King’s “The Ceremony,” Rob Morgan’s “Stopmotion,” Sasha Nathwani’s “Last Swim,” and Joshua Trigg’s “Satu – Year of the Rabbit.” The category is sponsored by BBC Film.

The best debut screenwriter category, sponsored by Film4, sees Andrews and Carmoon competing alongside Floyd, Jed Hart for “Restless,...

Filmmakers from Bring Them Down, The Ceremony and Tuesday feature prominently on the filmmaker new talent longlists for the 2024 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas).

Bring Them Down’s Christopher Andrews is longlisted for the Douglas Hickox Award for best debut director and the best debut screenwriter award, while the film’s debut producer Jacob Swan Hyam is longlisted for breakthrough producer.

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The Ceremony repeats that trio for writer-director Jack King and producers Hollie Bryan and Lucy Meer; as does Tuesday for writer-director Daina O Pusic and producer Helen Gladders.

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Exclusive: Alliance Media Partners (Amp) has taken world sales rights (excluding North America) to UK psychological thriller Restless, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival.

In the movie, a mild-mannered care-worker’s peaceful existence is disturbed when an intimidating party animal moves into the house next door. Subjected to endless sleepless nights, she is pulled into an escalating war of attrition which tests her resolve and sanity to the limit.

The film stars Lyndsey Marshal (Rome), Barry Ward (Jimmy’s Hall), Aston McAuley (The Refuge), Kate Robbins (After Life) and Denzel Baidoo (Dear England).

Produced by Benedict Turnbull (whose 2020 short Goldfish was BAFTA nominated) at Haus Pictures, pic marks the debut feature film from writer-director Jed Hart. It premiered in the Viewpoints strand at this year’s Tribeca Festival.

Hart said: “I set out to make a film that would place the audience squarely in our lead character’s point of view,...

Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Sandhya Suri’s Santosh and Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight are among the films to receive backing from the latest round of UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf) awards.

The BFI has made 19 additional awards totalling £527,563 through the £7m Ukgsf, which is financed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).

Cannes premieres Bird, Santosh and Sister Midnight all received international distribution awards via the festival launch track, which supports festival runs for UK films to reach global audiences.

The only film to receive an international distribution award via the prints and advertising support track in...

Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Sandhya Suri’s Santosh and Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight are among the films to receive backing from the latest round of UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf) awards.

The BFI has made 19 additional awards totalling £527,563 through the £7m Ukgsf, which is financed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).

Cannes premieres Bird, Santosh and Sister Midnight all received international distribution awards via the festival launch track, which supports festival runs for UK films to reach global audiences.

The only film to receive an international distribution award via the prints and advertising support track in...

The latest edition of the Tribeca Film Festival draws to a close in New York City, leaving another strong year for new genre premieres, retrospectives, and events in its wake.

Tribeca 2024 unveiled the new premiere of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s ultra-bleak The Devil’s Bath, raucous slasher Amfad: All My Friends Are Dead, goopy sci-fi horror comedy The A-Frame, and dusty neo-noir horror A Desert to name a few of the genre offerings this year. But the fest’s genre offerings don’t stop with Midnight programming, a section dedicated to horror and high-energy genre fare.

Here’s a round-up of brief thoughts and capsule reviews of Tribeca’s narrative features that either toe-dip or crash into horror in surprising ways.

The Damned

Director Thordur Palsson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jamie Hannigan (“The Woman in the Wall”), combines 19th-century survival thrills with atmospheric supernatural chills set in an Icelandic fishing village.

The Tribeca Film Festival 2024, presented by Okx, today announced its full lineup of feature narrative, documentary, and animated films. This year’s Festival, which takes place June 5-16 in New York City showcases the best emerging talent from across the globe alongside established names.

Of particular note to horror fans, Tribeca Midnight is the “surprising, shocking, frightening, and thrilling” destination for the best in horror and more for late night audiences. Look for buzzy titles like The Devil’s Bath, from filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. But the horror extends beyond the Midnight section, including the premiere of Amfad: All My Friends Are Dead.

Read on for the genre titles scheduled to premiere at Tribeca:

Spotlight Narrative

A launching pad for the most buzzworthy new films, Tribeca’s Spotlight section brings audiences anticipated premieres from acclaimed filmmakers and star performers.

The Damned, – World Premiere. When a ship sinks near her isolated fishing post,...

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