NATIVE (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Rupert Graves (V for Vendetta), Ellie Kendrick (The Levelling), Leanne Best (Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool), Joe Macaulay (film debut), Pollyanna McIntosh (Exam), Daniel Brocklebank (Release), Chiara D’Anna (The Duke of Burgundy), Ian Hart (God’s Own Country)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Daniel Fitzsimmons (film debut), director, writer; Neil Atkinson (film debut), writer, producer; Jim Fitzsimmons (film debut) and Jennifer Handorf (Prevenge), producers; Baltic Fleet (film debut), composer; Nick Gillespie (ABCs of Death 2) and Billy J. Jackson (The Bricklayer), cinematographers; Jacob Proctor (The Borderlands), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Two astronauts (Graves and Kendrick) are sent on a mission to a faraway planet after a mysterious transmission is heard from the depths of space…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This pulsating and riveting British sci-fi drama asks questions about the universe and what could happen if humanity could seek it out and try to understand it.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2018

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